DIY Soft Close Cabinet Doors {With Video!}

Hayis Mayıs 24, 2022

How to easily make cabinets doors soft close in just a few minutes.

Tired of your doors slamming shut when the kids are in the kitchen? :) There's an EASY fix for this that only takes a few minutes to install.

Did you know you can switch your basic cabinet doors to soft close cabinets by adding these dampers to your bathroom or kitchen cabinet doors? This is a great way to upgrade basic stock cabinets.

I share an installation video later in this post!

Every time we used to walk through IKEA I would open and shut the cabinet doors to see the magic of the soft close door. I never thought I would have them in our house, because replacing each and every hinge in our home wasn't going to happen.

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You CAN replace all of your compact cabinet door hinges with these soft close hinges instead. These are used on face frame cabinets like ours that have the extra trim around the front of the cabinet:

As long as you know how to use a screwdriver or power drill, this is a really easy update. The new hinges come with a tiny soft close mechanism installed inside.

**You'll want to use a different type of hinge if you have frameless cabinets, that have no front trim. These soft close euro hinges will work for that type of cabinet!

Typically these are a little spendy (although the price has dropped over the years).

If you use these self closing hinges, you'll need to adjust these to make your door spacing/opening uniform across all of your cabinets.

See those little adjustment screws on the left side of the hinge above? You can tighten or loosen those to change the following:

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