How To Easily Make Doors and Drawers

Don’t let doors or drawers keep you from building furniture. WOOD magazine Design Editor Jeff Mertz walks you step-by-step through our super-easy methods for building and fitting three types of doors and drawers. Simple layout tips, hardware installation tricks, and joinery techniques guarantee professional-looking results.

Hi, I’m Jeff Mertz, design editor at WOOD magazine. We hear from our readers all the time about how difficult doors and drawers can be and it can be an intimidating process. You’ve built a project and now you have these other sub-projects that you want so much to work.

We’re going to go through the hardware choices, joinery techniques and design options that are out there in a step-by-step, very systematic way, using common woodworking tools that will guarantee you success. So let’s look at what we’re going to cover in today’s video. 

Let’s start with a very basic door and drawer. This one has stub-tenon-and-groove joinery, a plywood panel, it also…