Building A Cabinet With Drawers

I m building these drawers for my diy dresser.

Building a cabinet with drawers.

Learn how to build kitchen cabinets and install the drawers using drawer slides. Also i make all my drawers using plywood for the box and plywood for the bottom. Add drawer pulls or handles as required. This means some extra building work and buying more slides but the smaller rollouts will operate more smoothly and easily.

Attach the drawer face onto the assembled drawer box using short screws slide the completed drawers into the cabinet. If the cabinet is more than 30 in. Wider shelves and drawers tend to bind or rack as you slide them in and out. To apply the drawer face first prime and paint the drawer face and allow to dry.

I like to use plywood to build my drawers because then i don t have to worry about twisted or warped boards causing me issues with alignment. For this drawer my opening was 7 1 8 wide so i subtracted 1 1 8 and made my drawers 6 tall. Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. A whole lot of making installing and building drawers is making sure things are lined up and square.

If you re using dimensional lumber you ll just go to first size that is under 1 of your opening.