Building Simple Cabinet Drawers

This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily.

Building simple cabinet drawers.

Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. The word drawer followed by dados and dovetails is surly enough to scare off many a diyer. Mount the drawer slides to the sides of the cabinet. Kreg tool is sponsoring this post and their pocket hole jig makes building these diy drawers an.

I ll use a pocket hole jig to easily build these drawers specifically my kreg k4. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. I am assuming you are using thick stock. Wide consider installing two narrower rollouts side by side rather than a single wide one.

If the cabinet is more than 30 in. The sides and back of the drawer should be 1 2 or 5 8 thick. For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front. To make things easy and give me plenty of wiggle room i measure up from the bottom of the cabinet about 1 higher than that drawer front so 13.

If the drawer front are inset the draw box will need to be recessed the same depth as the thickness of the drawer front. How to build a sliding drawer using kreg jig. Building a drawer box using a kreg jig is very straightforward and easy. I ll show you how to build a drawer in 6 easy steps.

In general the drawer front should be 3 4 thick unless it s a drawer with a false front false front drawers are a simple drawer box with the front screwed to the box. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Assure they are level and mounted 1 4 above the bottom of the opening. These diy drawers are quick to make are very strong and you can even make all the cuts with a circular saw.

Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out. Then i do the same for the next slide above it just add the two fronts below it plus an extra inch so 12 12 1 25. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front. Decide the dimensions of the drawer box.

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. It s a handy way to fit drawer fronts in projects where the drawers run on metal slides. That s where i mount the next slide. You have to take into account the size of the drawer slides and decide the width accordingly.

Then place a 1 4 shim along the bottom of the opening and set the drawer on it.