Skip to main content

Build and Finish Drawer Boxes

13:30
25:30
121.2K views

At 13:30 in

Tiny Mudroom, Max Storage

What happens here

Cut 3/4 inch maple plywood for the drawer box sides and bottom. Use pocket hole joinery and wood glue to assemble the drawer boxes. While dado cuts offer more support for drawer bottoms, for this application (holding shoes), the pocket hole method with 3/4 inch plywood provides sufficient strength without requiring specialized dado routing. Ensure each drawer box is square and sturdy.

Goal: Construct sturdy drawer boxes using 3/4 inch maple plywood with pocket hole joinery, ensuring they are strong enough to hold heavy items like shoes.

Tools and materials

  • 3/4 inch Maple Plywood
  • Cordless Drill
  • Kreg Jig
  • Pocket Hole Screws
  • Speed Square
  • Table Saw
  • Wood Clamps
  • Wood Glue Titebond

What they say

Hide

and get more material finish this off with the cabinets done the aent well done we need to start working on our drawers now typically with drawers I like to stay with/ in Maple ply or/ in ply but the bottom of the drawer is not going to be a quarter inch kind of like kitchen drawer just because you pile up a bunch of shoes in there and that sucker is going to get heavy that means quar inch ply is going to start sinking down on you we don't want to do it so we'll keep you consistent rip two drawers apart put them together well why are we ripping apart we're going to rip them up and then put them together together stupid all right let me just do [Music] [Applause] that usually I'm a fan of making D Cuts in the sides of the drawers like right here and then this piece would slide inside of it it's a lot more support but I've done this maybe four different mudrooms three definitely for sure where I just did this and I just put the pocket screws from the side shoes are going to go in there they don't need to be super glorious but with the pocket holes and the wood glue it will it will be strong so for all you keyboard Warriors relax it'll be strong and it'll be pretty [Music] that's a nice big deep drawer it's big enough that you can put work boots in there in fact let me see if I can I think I need this drawer in my house most of my boots don't fit in them and this one's fitting and really nice uh okay uh I think to pretty it up a little bit throw some Edge banding on the sides uh build one more drawer and then let's go install

Auto-generated from the video audio.