Making Sliding Cabinet Drawers

Building a drawer box using a kreg jig is very straightforward and easy.

Making sliding cabinet drawers.

Decide the dimensions of the drawer box. Make drawer boxes about 1 32 in. Smaller than you need. They re fussy to install.

Learn how to build kitchen cabinets and install the drawers using drawer slides. I am assuming you are using thick stock. Also i make all my drawers using plywood for the box and plywood for the bottom. I cut down my 3 4 plywood for the cabinet drawers to make strips that were 6 wide.

If your drawer is a hair too big or small these slides won t glide. How to build a sliding drawer using kreg jig. For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front. Corner cabinet shelves.

The drawer slide should come with information. Next you ll cut the drawer sides to size. It s easy to shim behind a slide with layers of masking tape to make up for a too small drawer. Create handy spaces for scouring pads and extra sponges.

Match the diy drawers sides to your drawer slides. Add hinges and interior mount bins to cabinet fronts under your sink. Make use of blind corners in your kitchen cabinets with multi tier sliding shelves that expand to create three to six individual pull out shelves. A whole lot of making installing and building drawers is making sure things are lined up and square.

Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front. I also rough cut them to size based upon the measurements that i ll get in steps 2 and 3. 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. It s a lot harder to deal with a drawer that s too wide.