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.

Building base cabinets with drawers. Plywood that matches the cabinets. Just make as many boxes as you like and hook them together. Install the cabinet drawers. 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. It s surprisingly easy to build base cabinets. Each side of the base cabinet will get two pull out trays one on the bottom and one near the middle. 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. Face frames cover plywood edges. Then i used pilot holes and screws to secure each drawer slide to the base cabinet. Once your cabinets are installed finish off the base front with a strip of 1 4 in.

Wide consider installing two narrower rollouts side by side rather than a single wide one. Add another sheet of 3 4 for the top or use solid wood. I shimmed up the bottom slides with plywood and gave them an setback. For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front.

Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. 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. Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out.

The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. This is the drawer box base. Hope you enjoy the project. Learn how to build kitchen cabinets and install the drawers using drawer slides.

In this instructable i ll show you how to make a base cabinet with drawers and pull out trays for your garage or shop. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Use a corner assembly square for this or a corner clamp. 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.

Build the drawer box using wood glue and 1 pocket hole screws keeping all the sides square. Attach the drawer slides to the drawer box and the cabinet frame.