Building Base Cabinets With Drawers

Start by building the individual cabinets.

Building base cabinets with drawers.

Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out. Just make as many boxes as you like and hook them together. 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. Plywood that matches the cabinets.

Attach the drawer slides to the drawer box and the cabinet frame. 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. This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily.

Use a corner assembly square for this or a corner clamp. Glue and nail a plywood base cut to size of the drawer box. Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. To design these i closely examined our kitchen cabinets and just simplified those construction methods.

Add another sheet of 3 4 for the top or use solid wood. This is the drawer box base. Hope you enjoy the project. Build a separate base it s important to use dead straight wood for bases so it ll be flat for setting the cabinets.

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Build the drawer box using wood glue and 1 pocket hole screws keeping all the sides square. I made two for drawers and a center cabinet for shelves and doors. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front.

If the cabinet is more than 30 in. Learn how to build kitchen cabinets and install the drawers using drawer slides. Once your cabinets are installed finish off the base front with a strip of 1 4 in. In this instructable i ll show you how to make a base cabinet with drawers and pull out trays for your garage or shop.

The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Wide consider installing two narrower rollouts side by side rather than a single wide one. It s surprisingly easy to build base cabinets. I shimmed up the bottom slides with plywood and gave them an setback.

Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Then i used pilot holes and screws to secure each drawer slide to the base cabinet.