Each kit will come with a set of instructions, so just follow the instructions for your specific kit. Then Dad and my brother started assembling the DIY pull out trash can kit. He did the same thing with the upper cabinet. My dad builds custom furniture and cabinets for a living he’s a pro at installing kitchen cabinets, so I just let him do this whole piece! He slid the cabinet into place, added a few shims at the back to make sure it was level and flat, and then screwed the cabinet itself into the wall to hold it in place. Once the cabinet was clean, it was time to install it. And remember, if you want the door to pull open with the trash cans, you’ll need to get a door mounting kit as well as the pull out trash can kit.
Once you have your dimensions, you can look at all of the pull out trash can kit options and see which ones will fit in your cabinet. We knew we wanted to leave the small drawer at the top, so we left the drawer in when we measured the cabinet. You need to know the inside dimensions of your cabinet ( height, width, and depth) so you can figure out what size trash cans will fit inside. For the lower cabinet, we removed the top drawer, the door, and the countertop so that we could easily install it.īefore you get started, you’ll want to measure your cabinet to get the right pull out trash can kit. We brought the cabinets upstairs and cleaned them up. I measured them both and they both fit exactly into the spot next to the fridge PERFECT! And over on the other side of the basement was a matching upper cabinet. It looked like this cabinet used to be in the kitchen and was removed for some reason. Weirdly enough, down in the basement laundry area was a cabinet and countertop that matched the kitchen.
But none of it was very pretty or tidy looking. The two locking lid trashcans were next to the fridge, and we added a small shelf above them to hold produce and things. Or if you get the door mounting kit you can take the door off the hinges and mount it to the front of the sliding mechanism so that the entire door pulls open along with the trash cans, like I did. If your door is currently hinged, you can leave it as is and get a pull out trash can kit that pulls out using a metal handle attached to the sliding mechanism. But I’ll go into detail about that further down in this tutorial! Also, you have two options about how to mount the door of the cabinet. NOTE: These pull out trash can kits come in all shapes and sizes, so you need to measure your specific cabinet before determining which product is right for you. pull out trash can cabinet kit ( the kit comes with trash cans that fit in the pull out mechanism).Here’s what you need to turn an empty cabinet into DIY pull out trash cans: 😛 They’re such sweeties!) DIY Pull Out Trash Cans Luckily, my dad and brother were in town when the cabinet kit showed up, and they generously offered to install it for me! ( Read: I walked around carrying my three month old baby looking sad until they offered to do it for me. So I just measured the inside of the cabinet I wanted to use and ordered the correct pull out trash can container kit to fit the cabinet. When I told my dad I wanted pull out trash cans he suggested Rev-A-Shelf they make tons of useful pull out kitchen gadget things. I’ve always wanted pull out trash cans, so I did a bit of research and realized it’s really easy to do yourself! If you have an empty cabinet, all you need is a pull out trash can cabinet conversion kit ( which you can get on Amazon!) and about an hour, and you can make your own DIY pull out trash cans! The problem was that we kept having to lock and unlock the lids every time we needed to throw something away, and it was just annoying. I’ve never been a big fan of the trash can situation in our kitchen it’s such a hassle to try to find a balance between the cans being easy to access, out of the way, cat-proof, dog-proof, and eventually child-proof! We had to get locking lid containers to keep the cats out of the trash cans, and then when we adopted the puppy, those trash cans worked great to keep her out of the trash as well.
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