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    The client had recently purchased a town home with a kitchen of cherry 
    cabinetry. One of the units was a pantry with nothing more than adjustable 
    shelves. A contractor had installed pull out drawer units at the homeowners 
    request. He built the pull out drawers using poplar with thin plywood 
    bottoms. He mounted each drawer on a single bottom mount drawer guide. The 
    results had no esthetic connection to the beautiful cabinetry of the 
    kitchen, and the drawers all rocked side to side due to a single supporting 
    guide upon which the drawer had to balance. The work of the contractor is 
    shown in the top row of photographs. 
          Careful measurements 
    were taken of the cabinet interiors and new drawers were constructed. The 
    drawers were made of solid cherry and stained to match the existing 
    cabinets. Now the pull out drawers match the esthetic of the cabinet woods. 
    And, each drawer has been fitting with a handle that matches the existing 
    cabinetry hardware. That solved the esthetics issue. Each drawer is now 
    supported by two bottom mount guides with a load rating of 200 pounds for 
    the pair. This eliminates the instability of the old  drawers. The 
    drawer guides are mounted to solid cherry cross members, whereas the old 
    drawers had the single guide screwed to a thin plywood drawer bottom. The 
    new drawers are rock solid and quite stout. And they look like they are part 
    of the original cabinets, although these drawers are truly an upgrade even 
    to drawers in the other base units of the kitchen cabinets.  |