Spent three days trying to get a drawer front flush on a built-in

I was fitting a set of inset drawers for a kitchen island, and the middle one just would not sit right. The cabinet box itself was slightly out of square, maybe an eighth of an inch, but it threw everything off. I tried shaving the drawer box, adjusting the slides, everything. Finally had to plane the back of the drawer front itself at a tiny angle over two hours to make it work. Anyone else have a simple job that blew up because of one small box issue?

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brown.gavin16d ago

Come on, is it really the box's fault? A truly skilled installer would have caught that out of square issue right at the start and fixed the cabinet itself. Shimming the box or adjusting the mounting screws would have been the proper first step, not spending hours planing a finished drawer front. That's just putting a band-aid on the real problem.

lindaowens16d ago

Honestly, that's the kind of thing that makes me want to just glue the drawer shut and call it a design feature. Tbh, after two hours of planing, I'd be so mad I'd probably shim the whole cabinet with a folded-up pizza box and call it a day. Ngl, sometimes the "proper" fix feels like building a whole new kitchen just to fix one stupid drawer. You win some, you lose your mind.

kevin_harris784d ago

Right? Sometimes the band-aid is the whole point. You just need the stupid drawer to work.