Building Base Cabinets With Drawers

Face frames cover plywood edges.

Building base cabinets with drawers.

This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily. Build a separate base it s important to use dead straight wood for bases so it ll be flat for setting the cabinets. Attach the drawer slides to the drawer box and the cabinet frame. Once your cabinets are installed finish off the base front with a strip of 1 4 in.

Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out. Build the drawer box using wood glue and 1 pocket hole screws keeping all the sides square. Learn how to build kitchen cabinets and install the drawers using drawer slides. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions.

Add another sheet of 3 4 for the top or use solid wood. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. I made two for drawers and a center cabinet for shelves and doors. If the cabinet is more than 30 in.

For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front. Use a corner assembly square for this or a corner clamp. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. This is the drawer box base.

Start by building the individual cabinets. 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. It s surprisingly easy to build base cabinets. Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors.

Hope you enjoy the project. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Plywood that matches the cabinets. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front.

Glue and nail a plywood base cut to size of the drawer box. To design these i closely examined our kitchen cabinets and just simplified those construction methods. I shimmed up the bottom slides with plywood and gave them an setback. In this instructable i ll show you how to make a base cabinet with drawers and pull out trays for your garage or shop.

Each side of the base cabinet will get two pull out trays one on the bottom and one near the middle. Just make as many boxes as you like and hook them together.