Building Base Cabinets With Drawers

I shimmed up the bottom slides with plywood and gave them an setback.

Building base cabinets with drawers.

Each side of the base cabinet will get two pull out trays one on the bottom and one near the middle. For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front. This is the drawer box base. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front.

Build a separate base it s important to use dead straight wood for bases so it ll be flat for setting the cabinets. 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. I made two for drawers and a center cabinet for shelves and doors.

Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. Start by building the individual cabinets. If the cabinet is more than 30 in. Wide consider installing two narrower rollouts side by side rather than a single wide one.

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

Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out. This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. 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. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Build the drawer box using wood glue and 1 pocket hole screws keeping all the sides square.

To design these i closely examined our kitchen cabinets and just simplified those construction methods. It s surprisingly easy to build base cabinets. Plywood that matches the cabinets. Face frames cover plywood edges.

Learn how to build kitchen cabinets and install the drawers using drawer slides. Add another sheet of 3 4 for the top or use solid wood.