DIY: Easiest 2x4 Drawer Bench

[Music] so this week we tackled a drawer that's actually easy to build where the white family we live in rural Alaska and for us it's DIY all day every day [Music] so winners come in and the down coats are coming out the hockey gear is coming out and hats and gloves are everywhere and the boots are everywhere and I need to get this mudroom organized and I need to get this mud groove done so I always recommend before you start a big project organizing effort use the space first and see where all the things are naturally ending up and then once you realize where all the piles are naturally going work with that and design something that maximizes the organic flow of the room so I'm gonna start with the biggest project first and that would be the mudroom system here I've got I got an idea what needs to go there okay so in that little mudroom area it's quite deep so I decided I wanted to do in the 24 inch deep bench there but I didn't want to just leave it open there because shoes would go to the back and get lost or boots or whatever so I want to put drawers in there so we're gonna build a drawer bench and I want to do three drawers but a drawer bench can be a little bit difficult to do if anybody's done that so I had this idea of how to do a little different so I'm gonna take two by fours and build these two matching frames and then we'll take plywood and we'll cover the top and the two outsides and then we'll throw drawer slides right on those two by fours and then we'll build a face frame and frame out the front to make it look pretty so I haven't done this type of construction before it's just a theory at this point we'll see if it works out our two-by-four cut and these will be for the frames so we're going to start building those right now [Music] [Music] so we got our two two by four frames put together so essentially across cutting this piece of plywood right that's really hard to shut through your table saw unless you have a really nice setup where you can actually set up for it well our shop is pretty small and it's limited so this is where the action that came in place you're not having to handle a 70 pound sheet of plywood no table saw no problem you get nice precise lines and you can really do a really quick easy fast job with this with this setup [Music] [Music] [Music] but this sort of screws in here because they're gonna be hidden by the beam august's bench is going to be tight against the wall but right here this is going to be exposed so I'm gonna go ahead and use the nailer that way they're discreet when we paint this thing people see anything but the way that we built this bench is a little different than we normally do it we're kind of testing it out but normally you would do like the plywood sides plywood top ply with dividers plywood bottoms and then you have to block things out for your door sites to work out in your face frame and it actually is a little bit of a pain so Jacob and I came up with this idea to do these two matching 2x4 frames and then we can just mount the drawer slides right to them like that and the benefit is saves a lot of material saves a lot of time in building it saves a lot of money because you're two by fours are a lot cheaper than all the plywood cuts and slaves a lot of extra steps you don't have to do all the blocking and all that funny business so I mean believe it or not we just have to have the top on this slop the base frame on it build the drawers or done [Music] okay so I'm mounting the drawer slides on the 2x4 frame and I need to block them up because there'll be a face frame on the front of the cabinet so the drawer slides we're just gonna get a 2x4 block sent this drawer slide this is the cabinet member on here use a square but I can bring this all the way forward [Music] [Music] hold these guys out that's the cabinet member who's talking about the drawer my bra you want to mount in parallel to your drawer bottom I just brought them up 3/4 inch because I wanted the drawer to be raised that height so that distance will be dependent on the on your project all right that is the drawer member mounted and I'm gonna test this out so they're flush to the front of the drawer here [Music] all right we're just gonna repeat that for the other two drawers [Music] we got all the drawers in and they slide really well I'm super excited that idea the two 2x4 frames with the drawer slides in between that actually worked and it was a very efficient and quick and easy way to build this bench so we're going to move on now the top put on the base frame put on the drawer faces put on and the drawer bottoms [Music] so this is the front of the cabinet this will trim it out and make it look over here what I'm doing is I want to make sure these guys are lined up exactly where they need to go alright we got the top on and I put those little pieces into my screen I'm just gonna check it out we got the face frame on now I'm going to start working on the drawer faces now have an idea to save a little bit of time and to save a little bit materials and that is to build these frames like this [Music] all right this is the drug base and how it's gonna work is it on the drawer box already made and since it's a solid would go over like that cover all the edges nail that on and then the handle will go there so we don't have to mess around with a back on this drawer [Music] so this is kind of a cheaters way of doing George face all we did was build face frame in kind of right over top of the drawer box this is actually the door box here saves a little bit of material and definitely saves a step so not all the nail holes to finish up give it a good sanding and then we can paint it get it in place [Music] we got the bench built now we need to put in place but obviously we built it to fit without the trim in place so at this nice little multi-tool and works good with this little cutter tool I'm going to go ahead and cut the trim pull it out get ready to fit venture salmon rolls make some cinnamon rolls you don't know how to [Music] you like it grace she's fighting claim your drawer now there's only three drawers mom dad and the kids so we got the bench in place and I gotta get the handles ordered but look at those drawers and look at hope that they slide so the beauty of this is nothing's gonna get lost way back in there and the other thing that I did you guys will notice like if you're standing in front of a low drawer you don't want it to run over your toes so you want to raise it up a little bit it was right on the ground and it hit your foot you couldn't stub your toe so want to try to avoid that uh just so excited about how this two by four idea went together and how it made everything so much simpler and I could totally see this same concept being used for like storage beds or dressers or anywhere you want to add drawers this could work really well so I have to do some more projects based off this it was a big win the whole project costs about 150 dollars the drawer sites we did nice ones and we use just over half sheet of plywood but I just counted it as a full sheet up I like the big expense was the one by tens for the drawer boxes but if you think about it and we just left it open you'd probably spend like 20 to 50 bucks on a nice bin anyway so having it built it in and just right I think that's a big way into okay so we got the drawer bench done and it's great and of course we're gonna go up the wall with something so stay tuned to see what we do there thanks for watching Elmo's Monday [Music] you shoots up let's see it see how good girl pop left top right [Music] bottom left Fievel you [Music]

Channel: Ana White

Views: 259,286

Keywords: anawhite, ana white, woodworking, build, wood, plans, project, howto, how to, how-to, diy, doityourself, do it yourself, do-it-yourself, easy, simple, 2x4, free plans, make, tutorial, drawer bench, drawer slides, mudroom, dresser, how to build a dresser, how to build drawers, entryway, hall tree, mudroom lockers

Id: ch-9Xa_Oymk

Length: 14min 37sec (877 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 04 2018