Making Sliding Cabinet Drawers

If your drawer is a hair too big or small these slides won t glide.

Making sliding cabinet drawers.

I also rough cut them to size based upon the measurements that i ll get in steps 2 and 3. Also i make all my drawers using plywood for the box and plywood for the bottom. Match the diy drawers sides to your drawer slides. Make drawer boxes about 1 32 in.

I am assuming you are using thick stock. How to build a sliding drawer using kreg jig. 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. Smaller than you need.

It s a lot harder to deal with a drawer that s too wide. Hinged drop down cabinet fronts. 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 cut down my 3 4 plywood for the cabinet drawers to make strips that were 6 wide.

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. Corner cabinet shelves. Next you ll cut the drawer sides to size.

They re fussy to install. Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. Building a drawer box using a kreg jig is very straightforward and easy. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front.

For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front. Learn how to build kitchen cabinets and install the drawers using drawer slides. The drawer slide should come with information. Create handy spaces for scouring pads and extra sponges.