The top is just a plywood board with strips of solid lumber framing it out. It has two faces, giving it the appearance of two drawers. The bottom drawer is a deep one intended for storing fabric. False fronts make positioning the faces easier you can adjust them with the drawers in place so they all line up. I made “false fronts” for the drawer faces using solid lumber. These are just butt-jointed together with glue and brads. I made my drawers out of 1/2″ (12mm) plywood with hardboard bottoms. Mine set on top of a heating vent, so I cut a hole in the front of the toe kick and installed a register.Īll three cabinets get screwed together, then screwed to the base.

The drawer runners are strips of solid wood glued into place.Īll the cabinets sit on a frame that creates a toe-kick area. The backs are 1/4″ (6mm) plywood. Gluing and tacking them on gives the cabinets a lot of strength. These are made with 3/4″ (19mm) plywood, joined together with glue and pocket screws. I made two for drawers and a center cabinet for shelves and doors. Start by building the individual cabinets. To design these, I closely examined our kitchen cabinets and just simplified those construction methods. It’s surprisingly easy to build base cabinets. Just make as many boxes as you like and hook them together. After much back-and-forth, we finally decided that what we really needed was a set of base cabinets. My wife and discussed a number of storage ideas and I drew up some sketches for some dressers that would fit beneath the window. The transformation of our guest bedroom into a crafts room continues this week.

Steve ramsey sketchup