Building Base Cabinets With Drawers

Face frames cover plywood edges.

Building base cabinets with drawers.

Install the cabinet drawers. For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front. Just make as many boxes as you like and hook them together. Start by building the individual cabinets.

Each side of the base cabinet will get two pull out trays one on the bottom and one near the middle. Attach the drawer slides to the drawer box and the cabinet frame. To design these i closely examined our kitchen cabinets and just simplified those construction methods. Build the drawer box using wood glue and 1 pocket hole screws keeping all the sides square.

Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. Then i used pilot holes and screws to secure each drawer slide to the base cabinet. Add another sheet of 3 4 for the top or use solid wood. This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily.

This is the drawer box base. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front. 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. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups.

I shimmed up the bottom slides with plywood and gave them an setback. It s surprisingly easy to build base cabinets. Glue and nail a plywood base cut to size of the drawer box. Use a corner assembly square for this or a corner clamp.

Learn how to build kitchen cabinets and install the drawers using drawer slides. I made two for drawers and a center cabinet for shelves and doors. Build a separate base it s important to use dead straight wood for bases so it ll be flat for setting the cabinets. Once your cabinets are installed finish off the base front with a strip of 1 4 in.

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Plywood that matches the cabinets. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out.

Wide consider installing two narrower rollouts side by side rather than a single wide one. Hope you enjoy the project.