Building Simple Cabinet Drawers

Wide consider installing two narrower rollouts side by side rather than a single wide one.

Building simple cabinet drawers.

I ll use a pocket hole jig to easily build these drawers specifically my kreg k4. This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. The sides and back of the drawer should be 1 2 or 5 8 thick.

Face frames cover plywood edges. Then place a 1 4 shim along the bottom of the opening and set the drawer on it. Building a drawer box using a kreg jig is very straightforward and easy. If the drawer front are inset the draw box will need to be recessed the same depth as the thickness of the drawer front.

You have to take into account the size of the drawer slides and decide the width accordingly. Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. How to build a sliding drawer using kreg jig. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front.

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. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. It s a handy way to fit drawer fronts in projects where the drawers run on metal slides. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions.

For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front. 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 show you how to build a drawer in 6 easy steps.

The word drawer followed by dados and dovetails is surly enough to scare off many a diyer. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. I am assuming you are using thick stock. These diy drawers are quick to make are very strong and you can even make all the cuts with a circular saw.

That s where i mount the next slide. 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. 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. Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out.

Decide the dimensions of the drawer box.