Roger Feeley
11-17-2022, 9:14 AM
I’m making a short stairway for my grandsons new room. It has sort of an elevated balcony. There will be only 3 treads. I hate to let space go unused so I’m thinking about drawers where the front would be the stair riser. But an open drawer would be a trip and fall hazard. I want a way that the drawer would close when released. I looked up self-closing slides and they only pull the drawer the last couple of inches.
my preference would have been to make the drawers come out the sides but there’s no room.
I can think of a couple of approaches:
1. Put the slides at an angle and let gravity do the work. In this case, I might build the stairs as cabinet carcasses and stack them.
2. Some kind of magical spring pulley thingy that would pull the drawer.
3. Make the spaces with no drawer, just a door into open space. The boys are 5 and 7 so you can guess how that would go.
Has anyone made drawers that close when released?
my preference would have been to make the drawers come out the sides but there’s no room.
I can think of a couple of approaches:
1. Put the slides at an angle and let gravity do the work. In this case, I might build the stairs as cabinet carcasses and stack them.
2. Some kind of magical spring pulley thingy that would pull the drawer.
3. Make the spaces with no drawer, just a door into open space. The boys are 5 and 7 so you can guess how that would go.
Has anyone made drawers that close when released?