Custom Add-On FE drawers

Very nice addition to your cabinets, Sharon. If my wife sees this, I know what my next project will be. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

These are so useful! I totally understand “losing’ something in the back of a cabinet!
Glad you thought to make them “removable” so that you will be able to take them with you.
Ellen

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Hey Purp! I was thinking of doing something similar. We have the cupboard under our sink just a large open space. We need 3 sections for recycling. I’m trying to find a clever way to build or buy containers and have them in there so they can be easily carried down for emptying.

Nice renovation Sharon. These will be very functional. Nice thinking regarding the pocket hole joinery.

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these are pretty useful – it’s my 3rd iteration of making those (getting better and better at it). I really don’t know why they make such deep cabinets WITHOUT something like this, but I digress…

Hiswillus – while some of the drawers I just made are in a wide cabinet like you mention, we only use these for storing smaller items that would otherwise be hard to reach (deep inside). for recyclables/trash/bins have you consider something like this (IKEA):

that’s what we use for exactly that purpose and it works great.

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Very neat

Jamie

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Sharon,

Looks good as always, I have been talking to the wife about doing something like this for our existing cabinets.

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Nice upgrade

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Sharon; Great addition. Both sets of kitchen cabinets that I’ve build is all drawers under the counter top. I even built drawers in the dead corner and opened them on the other side of the cabinets.

I always hated to have to go digging for something stuck back in the back.

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nicely done

-- Stelios L.A. Stavrinides: - I am not so rich to buy cheap tools, but... necessity is the mother of inventions !!!

Nice job Sharon! You’ve put your skills to good use with this practical and handy solution for the kitchen in your home.

-- Lorna, Cape Cod

This will make life easier, and yes that is where it all Begins.
Way to go.
Best thoughts,
Mads

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I’ve been wanting to do this with one of the cabinets in my kitchen as long as I’ve lived in this house. Is that just a strip of the Baltic birch running vertically on the left in pic #2 for a spacer? One at the front & one at the back?

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thanks guys!

Mads – easy is always a great way to go indeed (as long as it doesn’t come on the account of some other values).

Karson – I think it’s something that was only adopted as of late – using all drawers as opposed to doored-cabinets. drawers just make more sense if you have them sized appropriately – I like the idea of using the corners and open from the other side. will have to make a mental note of that one.

JJ – yes and no – the no being it’s not “Baltic” birch, but just “regular” (cabinet grade actually – as cheap as it comes) birth plywood. the yes – is for everything else. I used some left over parts and had 1 strip in the back, and one in the front as spacers along with some card-stock (thick paper) to make up for the front face thickness. I had this done practically in every places we’ve lived in the past 10 years.

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Sharon: This is the island in my home in NJ.

This is the one in Delaware.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Appomattox Virginia [email protected] †