How To Build A Cabinet With Drawers And Doors

How to make drawers in 6 easy steps.

How to build a cabinet with drawers and doors. Inset drawers are more difficult because of the precision required to get perfect lines around the drawer front. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. Lip doors and drawers normally have a 3 8 by 3 inch lip or rabbet around all edges. You will need the following tools.

Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames. These are often used on euro style kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities. Read this post to understand more about choosing inset or overlay doors. I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame.

You could also use 1 4 1 6 or 1 8 stock for your cabinet drawers if you don t want to deal with plywood. Cabinet door hinges for whatever style door you are making. Drawer slides for however many drawers you are making. For the sake of showing you how to build a simple cabinet drawer we ll be talking about attaching an overlay drawer front.

There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had. A table saw or circular saw for all of the cuts. Determine drawer height and rough cut parts. I used overlay door hinges.

Move the cases into position where they ll be installed. Remove the doors drawers and all hardware and apply a finish. Standard counter height is 36 with the cabinets usually being around 34 5 tall to allow room for the countertop material. Learn about the specialty tools that make cabinetmaking a breeze.

Doors and drawers can be overlap lip or flush. Standard counter depth is 25 which the cabinets themselves being 24 to allow for a 1 countertop lip. 1 1 4 pocket hole screws. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy.

To set the stage here a little i ll be using 3 4 plywood for these diy drawers. Shim the bottom edges to level the cabinets and make the face frame edges parallel with each other. Overlap doors and drawers have the entire front thickness exposed. Put your finished cabinets to work.

I ll be cutting them to custom size based on my build. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.