Building Base Cabinets With Drawers

Build the drawer box using wood glue and 1 pocket hole screws keeping all the sides square.

Building base cabinets with drawers.

Learn how to build kitchen cabinets and install the drawers using drawer slides. Use a corner assembly square for this or a corner clamp. Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out. Glue and nail a plywood base cut to size of the drawer box.

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Face frames cover plywood edges. This is the drawer box base. It s surprisingly easy to build base cabinets.

Build a separate base it s important to use dead straight wood for bases so it ll be flat for setting the cabinets. Then i used pilot holes and screws to secure each drawer slide to the base cabinet. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.

The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. I shimmed up the bottom slides with plywood and gave them an setback. Add another sheet of 3 4 for the top or use solid wood. For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front.

Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. In this instructable i ll show you how to make a base cabinet with drawers and pull out trays for your garage or shop. Once your cabinets are installed finish off the base front with a strip of 1 4 in. Attach the drawer slides to the drawer box and the cabinet frame.

Install the cabinet drawers. Each side of the base cabinet will get two pull out trays one on the bottom and one near the middle. I made two for drawers and a center cabinet for shelves and doors. Start by building the individual cabinets.

To design these i closely examined our kitchen cabinets and just simplified those construction methods. The assembly goes quickly with easy joinery and the whole base and drawers can be made from just 2 sheets of 3 4 plywood and 1 sheet of 1 4. 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.

Wide consider installing two narrower rollouts side by side rather than a single wide one. If the cabinet is more than 30 in.