Building Simple Cabinet Drawers

The sides and back of the drawer should be 1 2 or 5 8 thick.

Building simple cabinet drawers.

You have to take into account the size of the drawer slides and decide the width accordingly. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Kreg tool is sponsoring this post and their pocket hole jig makes building these diy drawers an. 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.

If the cabinet is more than 30 in. Decide the dimensions of the drawer box. Then place a 1 4 shim along the bottom of the opening and set the drawer on it. If the drawer front are inset the draw box will need to be recessed the same depth as the thickness of the drawer front.

The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. I ll use a pocket hole jig to easily build these drawers specifically my kreg k4. Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. Assure they are level and mounted 1 4 above the bottom of the opening.

That s where i mount the next slide. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. 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. 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. How to build a sliding drawer using kreg jig. Wide consider installing two narrower rollouts side by side rather than a single wide one.

Building a drawer box using a kreg jig is very straightforward and easy. I ll show you how to build a drawer in 6 easy steps. Face frames cover plywood edges. For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front.

Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out. I am assuming you are using thick stock. This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily. Mount the drawer slides to the sides of the cabinet.

The word drawer followed by dados and dovetails is surly enough to scare off many a diyer.