Making Sliding Cabinet Drawers

It s a lot harder to deal with a drawer that s too wide.

Making sliding cabinet drawers.

If your drawer is a hair too big or small these slides won t glide. Make drawer boxes about 1 32 in. Smaller than you need. Decide the dimensions of the drawer box.

Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. Next you ll cut the drawer sides to size. How to build a sliding drawer using kreg jig. It s easy to shim behind a slide with layers of masking tape to make up for a too small drawer.

Create handy spaces for scouring pads and extra sponges. I also rough cut them to size based upon the measurements that i ll get in steps 2 and 3. Match the diy drawers sides to your drawer slides. Also i make all my drawers using plywood for the box and plywood for the bottom.

You have to take into account the size of the drawer slides and decide the width accordingly. Make use of blind corners in your kitchen cabinets with multi tier sliding shelves that expand to create three to six individual pull out shelves. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front. I am assuming you are using thick stock.

Corner cabinet shelves. I cut down my 3 4 plywood for the cabinet drawers to make strips that were 6 wide. Learn how to build kitchen cabinets and install the drawers using drawer slides. A whole lot of making installing and building drawers is making sure things are lined up and square.

Hinged drop down cabinet fronts. For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front. Add hinges and interior mount bins to cabinet fronts under your sink. 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.