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If you can open a drawer, you can fix it. The five keywords you need to remember are soft close drawer slides, drawer runners, drawer glides, drawer tracks and cabinet hardware—each one appears in every section below so you never forget what to check.

Stop the slam! For the price of a pizza you can clip a tiny piston onto the drawer slides you already own. No new runners, no new holes in the bank account—just hush-hush drawers from tonight onward. Below I unpack the whole job in eight quick steps, sprinkle in pro tips and give you a printable checklist so you don't wander the hardware store wondering which bracket is which.

Blum, Hettich, Grass, Salice and Ficgoal dominate high-end concealed soft-close hinges with 28 RAL finishes, 3D hydraulic micro-adjustment and fire-rated options. Sugatsune brings 316L stainless for yacht galleys, Simonswerk hides 3D hinges behind 3 m doors, FGV offers budget-friendly custom damping, and Soss creates invisible pivot points. Ficgoal, China’s ISO-9001 plant, delivers 1 000-piece custom runs of cold-rolled steel soft-close hinges direct to dock in 45 days—no overseas warehouse, full batch traceability.