My first project is really coming together!
Built a set of drawers cabinets to my wife’s specs for the closet. Still have uppers, face frame and overlay fronts to do, but the garage was too full to keep going.
4ft (122cm) tall bank of drawers with full extension soft close undermount slides. 88in.(222cm) wide.
Feel free to make fun of the 2x4 toe kick! Rest assured I’ve learned my lesson.
All cuts made with my portable DeWalt table saw after breaking down sheets with my Ryobi circular saw and a harbor freight clamp as an edge guide.
I have wanted to build a set of drawers like this but I’m afraid that the drawers will not be level.
Did you have a trick for that?
Are you worried about the cabinets or the drawers themselves?
For the drawers, I used a wide scrap to set the height (and level) of the top slide, then another for the 2nd and cut it down for the 3rd. The bottom one is well, on the bottom.
For the cabinets, the sides were luckily enough the width of the standard sheet of plywood. I built the toekick as a separate unit (out of 2x4s, and I should have used plywood because even my straightest 2x4s were … not). I set the cabinets on the toekick in place and got lucky with level, but the toekick rocked a solid ⅜in (9.5mm). so I flipped the cabinet to apply the same weight and offer an access to the toekick and screwed another chunk of 2x4 to the toekick on the floor. Then I screwed the cabinets to the wall (using a magnetic “stud finder” (stud buddy) because I’m lucky enough to have drywall screws to locate studs) using some shims to level against the wall (solid ¾in/19mm bow in the middle).
My fear is that regardless of how much and how accurately I measure, that I won’t drill the rails for the drawers straight. I know it’s one of those things I should just buckle up and do it and learn lessons but it’s a constant nagging thing in my mind.
But what you described sound pretty straightforward. Using scrap wood as kind of a story stick and then making sure the holes are set to the story stick makes sense. Especially when it’s relative to the bottom.