Building A Cabinet With Drawers

I like to use plywood to build my drawers because then i don t have to worry about twisted or warped boards causing me issues with alignment.

Building a cabinet with drawers.

This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily. Learn how to build kitchen cabinets and install the drawers using drawer slides. For this drawer my opening was 7 1 8 wide so i subtracted 1 1 8 and made my drawers 6 tall. For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front.

If the cabinet is more than 30 in. Attach the drawer face onto the assembled drawer box using short screws slide the completed drawers into the cabinet. A whole lot of making installing and building drawers is making sure things are lined up and square. Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors.

Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out. To apply the drawer face first prime and paint the drawer face and allow to dry. Also i make all my drawers using plywood for the box and plywood for the bottom. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front.

Add drawer pulls or handles as required.