Building Base Cabinets With Drawers

Then i used pilot holes and screws to secure each drawer slide to the base cabinet.

Building base cabinets with drawers.

I made two for drawers and a center cabinet for shelves and doors. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front. 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.

In this instructable i ll show you how to make a base cabinet with drawers and pull out trays for your garage or shop. Attach the drawer slides to the drawer box and the cabinet frame. Build the drawer box using wood glue and 1 pocket hole screws keeping all the sides square. Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out.

Hope you enjoy the project. Each side of the base cabinet will get two pull out trays one on the bottom and one near the middle. Use a corner assembly square for this or a corner clamp. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.

Build a separate base it s important to use dead straight wood for bases so it ll be flat for setting the cabinets. It s surprisingly easy to build base cabinets. This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily. I shimmed up the bottom slides with plywood and gave them an setback.

Glue and nail a plywood base cut to size of the drawer box. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Once your cabinets are installed finish off the base front with a strip of 1 4 in.

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. Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. This is the drawer box base. Wide consider installing two narrower rollouts side by side rather than a single wide one.

Start by building the individual cabinets. Install the cabinet drawers. To design these i closely examined our kitchen cabinets and just simplified those construction methods. Learn how to build kitchen cabinets and install the drawers using drawer slides.

Plywood that matches the cabinets. For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front.