All The Mod-Cons (Pt2)
Insurrection of the Doors and Drawers All of our new cabinets and drawers in our new house have what is called “soft-closing” mechanisms. This means there’s a sweet spot from where they close themselves quietly. Very convenient if the person closing them finds the sweet spot. Useless if the person closing them doesn’t, because then they just stay open, threatening heads passing by the upper cabinets and legs walking past open drawers. After over seventy years, my husband has not acquired the skill-set to close a door or drawer. But—pardon…
