How To Build Cabinet Drawers

Cabinet door hinges for whatever style door you are making.

How to build cabinet drawers. How to build a cabinet drawer choose your drawer material. Traditional drawers have through dovetails at the back of the box and half blind dovetails at the front. Let s stick with those since it makes sizing your drawer super easy too.

You can go one step further and dress up your cabinet drawer box by hiding the plywood bottom. Then nail on the bottom with 3 4 brad nails with a nail gun or use finish nails with a hammer. Any kind will work.

Mount the drawer slides to the sides of the cabinet. A table saw or circular saw for all of the cuts. Assure they are level and mounted 1 4 above the bottom of the opening.

1 1 4 pocket hole screws. I used overlay door hinges. We ll be using 1 2 cabinet grade plywood for all parts of these drawers including the bottoms.

Our favorite technique is to make the drawer sides front and bottom using 1 2 thick stock and then glue on a 1 4 thick piece of veneer for the front. Then place a 1 4 shim along the bottom of the opening and set the drawer on it. Put a bead of glue around the bottom edge of the drawer box don t need a ton just a small bead.

I used euro style drawer slides in this build. Glue and nail a plywood base cut to size of the drawer box. Build the drawer box using wood glue and 1 pocket hole screws keeping all the sides square.