Building Base Cabinets With Drawers

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Building base cabinets with drawers.

The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Install the cabinet drawers. In this instructable i ll show you how to make a base cabinet with drawers and pull out trays for your garage or shop. It s surprisingly easy to build base cabinets.

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. Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out. Plywood that matches the cabinets. I shimmed up the bottom slides with plywood and gave them an setback.

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. If the cabinet is more than 30 in. This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily. Add another sheet of 3 4 for the top or use solid wood.

Each side of the base cabinet will get two pull out trays one on the bottom and one near the middle. Start by building the individual cabinets. Wide consider installing two narrower rollouts side by side rather than a single wide one. Just make as many boxes as you like and hook them together.

This is the drawer box base. To design these i closely examined our kitchen cabinets and just simplified those construction methods. Glue and nail a plywood base cut to size of the drawer box. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible.

Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Use a corner assembly square for this or a corner clamp. Face frames cover plywood edges. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front.

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. Then i used pilot holes and screws to secure each drawer slide to the base cabinet. Build a separate base it s important to use dead straight wood for bases so it ll be flat for setting the cabinets.

Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. Attach the drawer slides to the drawer box and the cabinet frame.