Making Sliding Cabinet Drawers

Corner cabinet shelves.

Making sliding cabinet drawers.

If your drawer is a hair too big or small these slides won t glide. Building a drawer box using a kreg jig is very straightforward and easy. A whole lot of making installing and building drawers is making sure things are lined up and square. Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors.

I also rough cut them to size based upon the measurements that i ll get in steps 2 and 3. Match the diy drawers sides to your drawer slides. It s a lot harder to deal with a drawer that s too wide. Next you ll cut the drawer sides to size.

You have to take into account the size of the drawer slides and decide the width accordingly. Create handy spaces for scouring pads and extra sponges. Decide the dimensions of the drawer box. It s easy to shim behind a slide with layers of masking tape to make up for a too small drawer.

Smaller than you need. Make drawer boxes about 1 32 in. They re fussy to install. Learn how to build kitchen cabinets and install the drawers using drawer slides.

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. I am assuming you are using thick stock. Add hinges and interior mount bins to cabinet fronts under your sink. Also i make all my drawers using plywood for the box and plywood for the bottom.

The drawer slide should come with information. How to build a sliding drawer using kreg jig. I cut down my 3 4 plywood for the cabinet drawers to make strips that were 6 wide. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front.