Typical kitchen face frame base cabinets have limited effective storage space because, while 24” deep, only the first half or so of that depth is easily and readily available. A much preferred situation would allow access to, and use of, the full depth of the cabinet.
If you have nominal 18” wide cabinets that are 24” deep in your kitchen (or anywhere for that matter), you can install IKEA Maximera drawers as pull-outs in the cabinets with no alteration of the existing cabinets or the IKEA drawers. All that is required are some screws and two 16” lengths of 1×2 wood for each drawer.
We have installed 13 Rationell drawers (now replaced by the Maximera low height drawers), one Maximera medium height drawer, and one Maximera deep height drawer as pullouts in our kitchen using the following approach.
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2. Attach the drawer glides to the pieces of 1×2” wood using the following steps. (Attention to detail in aligning the pieces is important to ensure a smooth operating drawer.)
(b) Place the front end of an assembled glide 5/8” from the end of one of the pieces of wood placed on its 3/4” side. (The set back allows for the width of the drawer front.) Make sure the bottom of the glide is even with the bottom of the piece of wood. (Work on a flat surface and use the other piece of wood as a registration surface to push the two pieces against to make sure they are properly aligned.)
(c) While holding the aligned pieces in place (or clamped in place), attach the glide to the piece of wood using two flat head phillips screws, one in front and one in back. (If you have one, use the self-centering drill bit to drill holes through two of the mounting holes on the glide before driving the screws to ensure better alignment.) See Photo 2, which shows the installed assembly.
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Drive two of the 2” screws into, but not through, each of the boards from the top, one about 2” from the end the glide is aligned to (the front), and the other about halfway down the board. (Further back and the second screw becomes hard to reach during installation in the cabinet.) See Photo 3, which shows the installed assembly.
(b) In cabinets with a fixed shelf: Assemble per the IKEA Maximera directions through Step 5. The rest of the drawer box assembly will occur later.
The drawer installation instructions are written for a cabinet with a fixed shelf. For cabinets with an adjustable shelf, simply remove the shelf during installation and replace it when the drawer is installed. To install a drawer on an adjustable shelf, follow the installation steps below.
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2. Turn the drawer box upside down and fit the drawer glides into their tracks on the bottom of the drawer box.
3. For low and medium drawers, put the drawer assembly right side up into the cabinet. You may have to tilt it to make it fit because the width of the assembly may now be wider than the cabinet opening because of the pieces of wood. (For medium drawers you may have to slide the drawer out on the glides a little bit while you put it in to get it to go in the cabinet. This will depend on the space between shelves and how much you can tilt the assembly.)
4. For deep drawers, the height of the drawers may not allow them to be placed in the cabinets the same way as the low and medium depth drawers. If you can get the assembly to fit in your cabinet, great! If not, here is how to get it in:
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C) While holding the assembly in the tilted position, slip the other glide under the drawer box and fit it loosely into its track slot.
D) Push the assembly back into the cabinet on the installed glide and lower it all the way down. Gently pull the drawer in and out all the way until the drawer box catches on the second glide mechanism. You will hear and feel when it catches.
A) Once the assembly is inside the cabinet, center it in the cabinet opening and, holding it by the boards and sides, pull it towards you so the front ends of the wood pieces butt against the insides of the cabinet face frame.
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C) Making sure the pieces of wood are still butted against the face frame, drive the front 2” screws in the pieces of wood into the bottom of the cabinet (or shelf).See the IKEA SEKTION drawer instructions in real life images, step-by-step tutorial so you can see where each piece and part of the drawer and hardware fit together.
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Hopefully you saw my last post about building an IKEA SEKTION base cabinet. Here’s the second video in the series about building and installing drawers into the base cabinet. My videos about assembling an upper cabinet and door are coming in a few weeks.
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If you’re installing base cabinets in your kitchen, you’re going to want drawers in them. The only reason to do shelves is that they are cheaper. But the efficiency and convenience of having drawers makes them well worth the extra cost, in my opinion. It is so nice in my new kitchen that I don’t have to get down on my hands and knees anymore searching for one thing I know is in that cabinet, somewhere back there. I just open the drawer and see everything in it. No bending or reaching.
IKEA does offer external and internal drawers. (The internal drawers go behind a cabinet door.) We installed both types of drawers in different cabinets in our kitchen. The video below shows assembling and installing an internal drawer. The process is almost exactly the same as installing an external one, but I have to add my warning:
Many of the pieces are similar but have slightly different directions. Just be aware that drawer I build in the video may be slightly different from the one you are working on. Most of the steps will be the same, but if there is something different, please follow the instructions that came with your cabinet. Also, your drawer comes with a separate set of instructions on where in the cabinet the drawers should be mounted, depending on your kitchen design. The video doesn’t show any of that, but you’ll need to know exactly where each drawer needs to be installed.
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If you’d like to read more posts about our kitchen remodel and using the IKEA system, take a look at the following post:
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