28 hidden drawer slides

Mechanical drawer slides work very well. Nobody could ever complain about their

function, but many of them don't look that great, and that's because you can

see them on the outside face of the sides of the drawers. As soon as you open

up the drawers, there they are, these metal things, and that doesn't exactly

fit with the traditional styling of base frame cabinets. That's why I like this

style of drawer slide. It's called the quadro drawer slide, and although it

mounts on the inside of the cabinet, and it's fully visible if you were inside

the cabinet, the rest of it, the sliding portion, fits underneath the drawer, so

that when you open the drawer, you don't see anything. You just see the drawer

side coming out. This is all hidden. The drawer side goes over top of it, and it

does a wonderful job, works very well, very solid. So let's go and take a look

and see how they work in real life. So here's the drawer slide installed. It's

fastened to this drawer spacer strip that brings the surface out pretty much

flush with the inside face of the face frame, and this is the part that the

drawer rests on, and this tab fits into the side, into a hole drilled in the side

Different designs vary, but the main takeaway here is that you don't have to

suffer the ugliness of exposed metal drawer slides if you don't want to. You

can get performance without giving up any good looks