Building Base Cabinets With Drawers

Start by building the individual cabinets.

Building base cabinets with drawers.

The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Build the drawer box using wood glue and 1 pocket hole screws keeping all the sides square. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Install the cabinet drawers.

Plywood that matches the cabinets. In this instructable i ll show you how to make a base cabinet with drawers and pull out trays for your garage or shop. Add another sheet of 3 4 for the top or use solid wood. Once your cabinets are installed finish off the base front with a strip of 1 4 in.

For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front. Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out. This is the drawer box base.

Attach the drawer slides to the drawer box and the cabinet frame. 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. Use a corner assembly square for this or a corner clamp.

It s surprisingly easy to build base cabinets. I shimmed up the bottom slides with plywood and gave them an setback. Each side of the base cabinet will get two pull out trays one on the bottom and one near the middle. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions.

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. Just make as many boxes as you like and hook them together. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Build a separate base it s important to use dead straight wood for bases so it ll be flat for setting the cabinets.

Then i used pilot holes and screws to secure each drawer slide to the base cabinet. This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily. Hope you enjoy the project. 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. Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors.