When I made the kitchen, the only drawer slides the local McCoys hardware store had were flimsy non telescope, non soft close, non auto close.

The result was that every time I arrived here after not being here for a few months, there were one or more drawers completely out of their slides.

So today I received and installed the first 3 sets of telescope soft auto close slides that I ordered from Amazon. Now the drawers open fully, can take any load (within reason) and won’t get damaged by closing hard.

I’m sure guests will appreciate drawers that work. I know I was always annoyed when I had job sliding drawers upon arrival. Especially since fixing the old drawers slides took only 5 minutes.

But these are hopefully sturdy enough to withstand some abuse.