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.

Building base cabinets with drawers.

Face frames cover plywood edges. I shimmed up the bottom slides with plywood and gave them an setback. To design these i closely examined our kitchen cabinets and just simplified those construction methods. If the cabinet is more than 30 in.

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

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. Then i used pilot holes and screws to secure each drawer slide to the base cabinet. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front.

Hope you enjoy the project. Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Add another sheet of 3 4 for the top or use solid wood.

It s surprisingly easy to build base cabinets. Just make as many boxes as you like and hook them together. Start by building the individual cabinets. Install the cabinet drawers.

Learn how to build kitchen cabinets and install the drawers using drawer slides. Build the drawer box using wood glue and 1 pocket hole screws keeping all the sides square. 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.

In this instructable i ll show you how to make a base cabinet with drawers and pull out trays for your garage or shop. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. 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. Use a corner assembly square for this or a corner clamp.

This is the drawer box base. I made two for drawers and a center cabinet for shelves and doors.