Those are very interesting and look really nice and clean. Is the soft close necessary? I have push-to-open drawers in my entertainment center, and they are also push-to-close using a similar magnet system. The soft close does make things more intuitive, but it can be done without it.
These 'smooth operators' are a mother's dream. Imagine your fingers all covered in dough and you need a utensil in a drawer. My elbow or knee could take over and keep the drawer clean and sanitary. Thanks Nathan, you provide such interesting Vlogs. PS: I still use my old pantyhose on my vacuum filters. You have the system I can only dream of.
I would have to state whether or not new style cabinets are your thing, there are some great takeaways in this short video. The combination of hardware that you mentioned is a brilliant idea to use and not to forget the tension cassettes. Moreover, there is the classic finger joints that they employ along side a standard practice. I will have to see if any of this is available in the UK as a kitchen rebuild is approaching…. Thank you for sharing this content.
This is exactly what I dream about for our home some day. When I visited my sister's apartment in Brasil several years ago, this is what she had and it looked amazing in her kitchen.
I commissioned a local carpenter to create a fairly traditional bespoke pine sideboard. Since there were 5 cupboard doors (a double and 2 singles) I didn't fancy looking at asymmetry, so went to a kitchen joinery store and sourced some magnetic hinges similar to those featured in vid. Worked a treat. It put the 'fun' into functional! 😁 Thank you for your clear and concise vids, they are truly splendid. Thanking the universe for finally stumbling across your content, last night!! Better late than never. Immediately subscribed after watching the "2power tools you need" vid. Greetings and gratitude from sunny Yorkshire. 😊
I have the Blum push to open and soft close cabinetry hardware in my kitchen. Absolutely love them. Always opening drawers and cabinets with elbows, knees and toes with hands full of stuff.
In the house we purchased last year, (Built 1970), we discovered our kitchen cabinets and drawers all have "built in" handles that are completely invisible to the naked eye, hence why we just discovered them - they for some reason put handles on the drawers/doors anyway.. They use regular drawer slides and door hinges, but when looking at them straight on, from the top, or from the sides, you cannot see the handles which are carved out of the bottom of the doors and drawers! Pretty cool design.
LOVE IT! Can you show us more details? As you stated? I’d also love to hear what the builder was saying in your video! Thanks, and please share more innovations, such as this.
I am building a tiny house on wheels and am considering using push to open cabinets and drawers. Since it's a small walkway, i think it'll give a more open feel without all the handles drawing your eye away. I'm not into the contemporary look, but i still think this will work on a cute country beadboard door. Thanks for your videos.! 🥰 🔨
Love the functionally. These are becoming the future of cabinetry. If I was to buy a more expensive home I would definitely consider installing this kind of cabinet. Ease of use & higher resale value.
Really great concept, thanks! Question: how does one deal with fingerprints on the face of the cabinets rather than on handles which don't show fingerprints?
Great video! Blum also produces an electronic version of that slide called Servo Drive. Much smoother operation and doesn’t require the big push to get the soft close to work.
Thanks for the coverage of "new" technology! Another great video. I absolutely hate those sinks, but I use mine to do more than trickle water on the tips of my fingers. Lol The push to open combined with soft close in pretty cool indeed. But what I find most impressive are the window shades. I saw those a while back in an office building I was helping finish. To be "clean," I'll just say, "They are the bee's knees!" Beautiful cabinetry work also!
These windows aren’t that new though. I saw the technique used in real life about 20 years ago and have seen it multiple times since. Maybe it’s more common in Europe than it is in the USA.
@David Walrave Well, Europe and Asia do seem to have all the "cool" and advanced tech before us a"merica"ns. (Maybe the merica has something to do with it??? Lmao.) Had no idea 20 years! Wow
Always love the flush look of handleless. A video idea. Would you talk about angle grinders and multi-tools? I was gonna get a good o' angle grinder to sand and cut pipes, but it seems a multitool can do too. What are their strengths? Thx
I have handleless cabinets and drawers in my kitchen. I don’t know why anybody would really want them. The doors provide no clue which side the hinge is on, so until you learn each door, you don’t know which way it will open. For the drawers you’re trying to grab the edge to get the drawer open, which dirties the area around it. For flushones, will guests be able to intuitively operate them? Maybe.
Yes, this is the epitomy of the modern preference for style over function and over-engineering purely for the sake of it. I lose count of the things I use every day that are less useful than the things my grandparents had
Interesting whenever I build cabinets I use these magnetic door hinges they sell at Walmart for whenever my clients ask for no handles on the cabinets.👷🏿♂️
This is exactly what I'm looking for, for a client thanks for sharing. Any idea of the model or particular name of the hardware for this on blums site?
Oh my I can't wait for the drawer slide episode because you are right - cabinet slides are tricky to get right and I've never found a jig I've really liked to line up the slides for cabinets. They - work but nothing to make the job brainless.
That seems to be some very interesting technology. I grew up in a family of carpentry so woodworking still interest me. But when I see these high-end homes and things that I don't really consider necessary, including the enormous home itself and all the landscaping and how ridiculously expensive it's got to build the house nowadays. I'm just happy to have a roof over my head, and I say I'm not the only one that feels that way.
I'm sorry if I came across crass, because that wasn't my intention. I myself see some immaculate residential homes. My mother is a real estate broker and certified appraiser. I live in Eastern Kentucky and it's just one way or the other. And what I mean by that is in one way you'll have just a nice functional house with regular cabinets that have handles on them and not that the house isn't in good shape it's just what in the appraisal business considered dated. And then you walk into these homes that are unexplainable. I've helped my mother a lot with appraisals because it's so much faster to do your measurements on the outside of the home with two people when you're working with 100 ft tape measure. But, the final thought I have in my head is my weakness and compassion for the homeless. It hurts to see people in need of a hot meal and a place to clean up and sleep safely for the night. And all the while you got small components on the inside of a residential home that cost $1,000. So that's really the skinny of what I was getting at maybe I should have explained it better but I think I have now.
My first thought was that the home owner needs spares of the hardware to ensure longevity of the design. We all know that stuff fails over time (entropy) but having a unique design means 'hard to get' in the future. Otherwise, looks pretty cool and I could see how some high end clients would love this.
I put in nice cabinets but did not find handles that I liked. So I put off installing the handles. About 25 years have gone by now and still no handles. They open just fine by grasping the edge of the door.
Another fancy gizmo that goes belly-up at the most awkward time. Looks good though that is until someone with greasy hands opens/closes the drawers. Nothing beats simple, solid brass handles.
Blum is not the only company making push to open and soft close runners. King Slide was actually the first company to invent this more than 10 years ago! They have since launched a much-improved version with a light push open force and the drawer opens more than just 5 inches.
Great info, as usual! Perhaps it's just me, but I hear reverberation in this one. I don't usually hear audio issues others claim to notice. I'm not an audiophile, but I did spend several years in a church sound booth, a few years back. Sounds like the microphone gain is possibly a bit too high.
I'm not sure how long that company has been making those slides, but I have those exact slides on my kid's furniture I bought them at ikea A few years back and has been using them on things I Built-in my garage. I believe they are an option with the BESTA line of products
The Blum Tandem slides plus the push to open mechanism, called Tip-On, will run about $115 per set. Movento a little more. You can get same functionality from Salice Futura for about $40 per set and the mechanism is built in, not an add-on. But it's also the difference between German and Italian engineering. You can feel the difference in the hardware just holding it and how the locking clip feels when activated.
I prefer handles and knobs. Overall I like an older aesthetic or at least something handmade with manual tools. So a hammered bronze, wrought iron or carved wooden hardware set will always be my 1st choice
"Push to open" is a very attractive idea at first since it lets you not only remove external hardware but moreover increase the drawer front dimensions, but in practice, it kind of sucks because you can easily open drawers and cabinets accidentally just by leaning against them or hitting them while using your bathroom or kitchen; and, they have the disadvantage that, unlike with a handle or other opening mechanism, where you contact the device in one spot and open it completely without a second motion, "push-to-open" requires first contacting on the front face to initiate the opening, and then following up by pulling the drawer the rest of the way out. I still prefer smooth rolling drawers that open from the side or roll out quickly with a small button.
I have been researching this lately to incorporate into a project but I would like for the push-to-open to slide out more than 3-5 inches, without some crazy expensive rail set. Anyone have any input?
Great ideas Ethan. I am newer DIYer and I wished I had known about this hardware before I started to rebuild the cabinets in our 100 year old home. I added the under drawer soft close, but needed drawer pulls. The drawers would have looked much better with the Push-to-Open and soft close combined. Thank you for the information. I have other built-ins that I could add this.
Blu-motion is what Blum calls soft close. The slides are Tandem with Blu-motion. You can go up in functionality and price and get Blum's Movento. Also push to open but with the option of adding a servo motor for that truly luxe kitchen.
It's really a beautiful look and I love the attention to detail, but these would require more cleaning. You'd put your grimy hands on it once to push open, then twice to open completely. It's aesthetics over form and function. I would probably go for the aesthetics in this case.
Things that look good but are more complex and are functionally worse. Great for the gram, wouldn't want it on my home or business for hardly anything. A handle is explicit for the user, a cabinet with so many doors opening in different directions where you have to push in the right spot while not being obvious is an annoying UX. Can work great in some circumstances, but it is tricky, either some visual elements that guide you or consistent opening spots. Also, that led without a diffuser underneath the bed :S. I know how I sound, don't take it harsh, I just wanted to share some criticism to balance. I actually appreciated the technical solutions, but I would suggest looking in the directions I shared, like putting your grandma on that bathroom and seeing if she figures out first time or if she get's a bit frustrated when there's tons of cabinets in different directions, maybe some metal inlay on the wood can suggest where to push, just as an example.
