After building all the bottom drawers I installed them only to realize that I'd made a 1mm error and that they were tight on the slides. It was easy enough to space them out and getting them working right but frustrating. Of course I don't know if I should be happy that my 1mm error was consistent throughout or not...
I wanted to make the drawers deep and extremely heavy duty. They're all built with 18mm sides and 12mm bottoms in baltic birch and they can support in excess of 100lbs each with ease.
I've gotten very accurate with my construction and every drawer is bang on square and perfect to the mm. It's encouraging.
I've also had a little help along the way. Emphasis on the little. :-)
A benefit of living in the house as you're still doing the construction is that you learn where you tend to naturally work and that informs how you build. We always prep to the left of the sink and so it made sense to put the knives there. It also made sense to make a knife block to fit the drawer.
I also wanted the top drawers to hold all the normal utensils that would sit on the counter in crocks or such and so the drawers needed to be a bit deeper but also have dividers. For instance the knife drawer is deep enough that a cutting board can sit on top of the knives and such and be out of the way.
At this point I went back to my drawings and adjusted my numbers and started on the second and third level drawers.
It's been a lot of work but the drawers are turing out fantastically and they only need their coat of poly to get them finished. After that it's just a matter of installing them and I can move on to closets.
And just because all work and no play would be a drag I made a swing for the kids.
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