Building Drawers And Cabinets

Also i make all my drawers using plywood for the box and plywood for the bottom.

Building drawers and cabinets.

I m building these drawers for my diy dresser. If the cabinet is more than 30 in. Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. A whole lot of making installing and building drawers is making sure things are lined up and square.

How to use a kreg jig. The word drawer followed by dados and dovetails is surly enough to scare off many a diyer. Nonetheless there s an easier way to build a drawer without using a table saw or router yet results in a beautiful sturdy assembly just the same. For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front.

I like to use plywood to build my drawers because then i don t have to worry about twisted or warped boards causing me issues with alignment. For this drawer my opening was 7 1 8 wide so i subtracted 1 1 8 and made my drawers 6 tall. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Although i am using a kreg jig to build this drawer the basic principles are the same using any other joinery method.

The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out. Attach the drawer slides to the drawer box and the cabinet frame.

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Attach the drawer face leaving 1 8 gap on all sides using wood glue and finish nails and clamp it well. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front. This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily.