Building Simple Cabinet Drawers

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.

Building simple cabinet drawers.

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front. Kreg tool is sponsoring this post and their pocket hole jig makes building these diy drawers an. I ll show you how to build a drawer in 6 easy steps.

These diy drawers are quick to make are very strong and you can even make all the cuts with a circular saw. Building a drawer box using a kreg jig is very straightforward and easy. Then place a 1 4 shim along the bottom of the opening and set the drawer on it. You have to take into account the size of the drawer slides and decide the width accordingly.

I ll use a pocket hole jig to easily build these drawers specifically my kreg k4. I am assuming you are using thick stock. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. If the cabinet is more than 30 in.

It s a handy way to fit drawer fronts in projects where the drawers run on metal slides. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. That s where i mount the next slide.

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. Assure they are level and mounted 1 4 above the bottom of the opening. 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.

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. Wide consider installing two narrower rollouts side by side rather than a single wide one. 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. This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily.

How to build a sliding drawer using kreg jig. Face frames cover plywood edges. Decide the dimensions of the drawer box. If the drawer front are inset the draw box will need to be recessed the same depth as the thickness of the drawer front.

Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front.