Installing a cabinet drawer

This is especially nice in rental units cutting down on future maintenance. Overall, this is a pretty easy project and fast project. Plus, cabinet pulls provide function and a nice refresh to a space. Here to help others save time and money through doing their own home repairs and improvements. Home maintenance can be overwhelming especially if it is something you have put off for several years.

If you are a new homeowner or just looking to take more control of your home's maintenance we One note about installing drawer glides: The predrilled holes for the screws allow for minor adjustments either vertically or horizontally.

Usually, I use the horizontal adjustment holes on the cabinet member part. That way, when I install the Drawer Front, if it sticks out to far from the cabinet, I can adjust my glide to pull the drawer back farther into the cabinet so the Drawer Front sits flush against the face frame. Sandra you are a drawer wonder, thank you for all those great tips. Drawers frustrate me to no end but your tips make it seem doable. Well, now that you covered that in perfect detail and you said how to attach the drawer fronts themselves, you just need to do a tutorial showing how to make a really detailed and complicated-looking but not complicated-to-make 5 piece drawer front using rail-and-stile router bits.

Then I will be fully informed on how to make my kitchen cabinets! You know you need to fly down to Knoxville so we can just hammer some of this out for a week, right? No, I just mean drawer fronts just like you made for your last kitchen but using a rail-and-stile router bit set instead. But, I will still build — have to, really, with all these great tutorials you give! I made all new 5 piece doors and drawer fronts out of pine with routered rails and stiles stick and cope. You can do it, too!

You must have been reading my mind. I was just looking at the Rockler website and trying to figure what kind of drawer glides to use for my newest project. What do you suggest? They were the most inexpensive I could find but got really good reviews. I will definitely order from them again. No affiliation…just happy with my order. Brilliant tutorial. Now I feel a little more capable.

I love your Closet!! Angie you always make me laugh! Member is just another word for piece or part. One for the drawer and one for the cabinet. You make it look less intimidating.

Thanks so much. Thanks for the written instructions for installing level glides. Great tutorial…you simplify what could be a complex process. I do have a question.. To cut the notch on the other side, move the fence to the opposite side of the blade and repeat the process. Photo 3. Use a jig supplied by the slide manufacturer to drill a hole above each notch. These holes secure the slide to the back end of the drawer.

Next, drill a 6mm dia. Photo 4. Install locking clips for the slides on the front corners of the drawer box. The same jig used in the last step makes it easy to locate and drill the pilot holes. Use the same jig to drill pilot holes for the locking clips that engage the drawer slides.

These clips are installed on the underside front corners of the drawer Photo 4. The screws are installed at a slight angle for them to hold properly, so the jig is very handy in this case.

Note that when purchasing the clips, you will need one left and one right clip per drawer. Photo 5. Photo 5 Use the notches to install the drawer box and engage the slides. A pin anchors each rail at the back and the clips on the bottom lock each rail at the front. Installing the drawer box is easy Photo 5. To remove the drawer, pull it out, reach under and squeeze the locking clips.

Photo 6. To avoid tear-out when drilling the holes, use a brad point bit and a piece of scrap wood as a backer. Then mark pilot hole locations on its back by pushing the same drill bit through each hole from inside the box and twisting it Photo 7.

Use these marks to drill 8 pilot holes into the back of the drawer front.