Building Base Cabinets With Drawers

Once your cabinets are installed finish off the base front with a strip of 1 4 in.

Building base cabinets with drawers.

Build a separate base it s important to use dead straight wood for bases so it ll be flat for setting the cabinets. This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily. Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. Build the drawer box using wood glue and 1 pocket hole screws keeping all the sides square.

Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Glue and nail a plywood base cut to size of the drawer box. Add another sheet of 3 4 for the top or use solid wood.

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. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Each side of the base cabinet will get two pull out trays one on the bottom and one near the middle. In this instructable i ll show you how to make a base cabinet with drawers and pull out trays for your garage or shop.

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. Plywood that matches the cabinets. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups.

To design these i closely examined our kitchen cabinets and just simplified those construction methods. Learn how to build kitchen cabinets and install the drawers using drawer slides. Just make as many boxes as you like and hook them together. This is the drawer box base.

Use a corner assembly square for this or a corner clamp. Then i used pilot holes and screws to secure each drawer slide to the base cabinet. Start by building the individual cabinets. Hope you enjoy the project.

It s surprisingly easy to build base cabinets. Attach the drawer slides to the drawer box and the cabinet frame. Wide consider installing two narrower rollouts side by side rather than a single wide one. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front.

I made two for drawers and a center cabinet for shelves and doors. If the cabinet is more than 30 in.