This has come up in the sub before. Crappy installation is not crappy design. There should be adjustment screws on the fittings in the walls of the drawer where you can offset the front vertically or horizontally to fit. You shouldn't need to actually cut anything off unless this is a very, very old set of drawers.
Look at the bottom doors and you’ll see how much the drawer is overlapping the other one. I don’t think it’s getting adjusted to the point it’ll work. IMO it’s both crappy design and installation as both parties should have spotted this issue and offset the cabinets from the corner on both angles not just the one.
If the cabinet and drawer fronts can be adjusted so this isn't a problem with about 3 minutes of work, it isn't the design that sucks, it's the installation. Cabinets and drawers like this are actually incredibly well designed because they can be easily modified with just a simple screwdriver to fit in so many close situations like this without needing expensive custom hardware and carpentry.
Yes modern kitchen cabinet hardware is good and incredibly adjustable. I love the concealed runners that fit underneath.
Have a closer look at the pic. The drawer behind the front is about three inches narrower than the front with very low sides, It's also pine and I don't see any hardware on the side. Maybe my country is different, but I haven't seen any natural wood used in drawer boxes in a kitchen for a very long time. Manufactured wood like MDF or particle board is used with a plastic film coating because it's dimensionally more stable in different seasons. My 1976 kitchen has particle board and masonite drawers with non adjustable steel runners with plastic wheels.
I think this is a sloppy renovation job with new fronts on old carcasses.
Oh crap, this is actually your drawer? That sucks.
What you're going to want to do is remove the other drawers on the left so you can pull this one out entirely. Then pull off the edging on that side (carefully) with a knife. From there, it depends on what tools you have. My first thoughts are a circular saw, but I have a circular saw, a wood plane or belt sander would also work - don't use a jigsaw, they're not particularly precise. Shave off 5mm, then get some replacement edging from a hardware store.
It's still crappy design, one of those two drawers is going to be the most annoying drawer in your entire kitchen, but it will at least be usable.
Nah, more likely than not this is the same build-a-cabinet design used in like 95% of builds for the last few decades. There should be adjustment screws in the fittings that move the front panel vertically and horizontally to fit the installation.
This has come up in the sub before. Crappy installation is not crappy design. There should be adjustment screws on the fittings in the walls of the drawer where you can offset the front vertically or horizontally to fit. You shouldn't need to actually cut anything off unless this is a very, very old set of drawers.
Look at the bottom doors and you’ll see how much the drawer is overlapping the other one. I don’t think it’s getting adjusted to the point it’ll work. IMO it’s both crappy design and installation as both parties should have spotted this issue and offset the cabinets from the corner on both angles not just the one.
IIRC, they usually have something like 1.5" of movement in any direction, more than the depth of the drawer front, to address this exact issue.
What is another word for a plan that describes the relative positions of the cabinets in a kitchen? Fill in the blanks: A kitchen d_____n ?
It can still be designed perfectly, but installed terribly.
Layout of the drawers is fine, OP just needs to adjust the drawer (which the installers should've done)
Not crappy design at all, just a reality of smaller kitchens.
If the cabinet and drawer fronts can be adjusted so this isn't a problem with about 3 minutes of work, it isn't the design that sucks, it's the installation. Cabinets and drawers like this are actually incredibly well designed because they can be easily modified with just a simple screwdriver to fit in so many close situations like this without needing expensive custom hardware and carpentry.
Yes modern kitchen cabinet hardware is good and incredibly adjustable. I love the concealed runners that fit underneath.
Have a closer look at the pic. The drawer behind the front is about three inches narrower than the front with very low sides, It's also pine and I don't see any hardware on the side. Maybe my country is different, but I haven't seen any natural wood used in drawer boxes in a kitchen for a very long time. Manufactured wood like MDF or particle board is used with a plastic film coating because it's dimensionally more stable in different seasons. My 1976 kitchen has particle board and masonite drawers with non adjustable steel runners with plastic wheels. I think this is a sloppy renovation job with new fronts on old carcasses.
How'd they get shit in there in the first place?
They put that drawer in first. Then the other.
No idea but I can’t get it out 💀
Oh crap, this is actually your drawer? That sucks.
What you're going to want to do is remove the other drawers on the left so you can pull this one out entirely. Then pull off the edging on that side (carefully) with a knife. From there, it depends on what tools you have. My first thoughts are a circular saw, but I have a circular saw, a wood plane or belt sander would also work - don't use a jigsaw, they're not particularly precise. Shave off 5mm, then get some replacement edging from a hardware store.
It's still crappy design, one of those two drawers is going to be the most annoying drawer in your entire kitchen, but it will at least be usable.
Nah, more likely than not this is the same build-a-cabinet design used in like 95% of builds for the last few decades. There should be adjustment screws in the fittings that move the front panel vertically and horizontally to fit the installation.
OP might also be able to remove the decorative front panel of the drawer and move it over a little bit. Assuming there is room on the right side.