Repairing A Kitchen Cabinet Drawer
Have you ever gone to open a kitchen cabinet drawer and the front about falls off in your hand? Well, builder-grade cabinets are built builder-grade. If you have a drawer that has a lot of weight in it, like a silverware drawer, a couple of quick pulls will do just the trick to damage it.
Children are the great destroyers of drawers. If they go to open a heavy drawer quickly, the weight of the contents slams into the drawer front. Repetition of this will cause the particle board box to start coming apart. Small children also like to open a drawer and pull themselves up on it to peek inside. It doesn't take much for the drawer guides to come loose from the sides.
Fixing these drawers is not terribly difficult. I would get some "L" brackets and, after tapping everything back in place, secure them to the corners of the box. I would secure the corners of the box with the brackets, but leave the bottom of the drawer alone as this is held in place by a groove on the inside perimeter of the drawer.
If the drawer front (the attractive wood piece) pulls off of the front of the drawer, you can screw that back together from the inside of the box. You must pre-drill the holes (not too deep as you don't want to go through the drawer front), and screw the drawer box to the drawer front.
To stop this from happening again, you might consider some child-proof locks.