Building Simple Cabinet Drawers

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

Building simple cabinet drawers. Decide the dimensions of the drawer box. Building a drawer box using a kreg jig is very straightforward and easy. If the cabinet is more than 30 in. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front.

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. These diy drawers are quick to make are very strong and you can even make all the cuts with a circular saw. 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. If the drawer front are inset the draw box will need to be recessed the same depth as the thickness of the drawer front.

Assure they are level and mounted 1 4 above the bottom of the opening. Kreg tool is sponsoring this post and their pocket hole jig makes building these diy drawers an. Then place a 1 4 shim along the bottom of the opening and set the drawer on it. This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily.

I am assuming you are using thick stock. That s where i mount the next slide. 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.

Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Face frames cover plywood edges. The word drawer followed by dados and dovetails is surly enough to scare off many a diyer. How to build a sliding drawer using kreg jig.

Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. The sides and back of the drawer should be 1 2 or 5 8 thick. Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out. 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. 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. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. You have to take into account the size of the drawer slides and decide the width accordingly.

The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups.