Six Sided Drawers and Sink Based Doors

Welcome back to the kitchen project. I’m going to be working through a lot of little things today. I’m going to get the drawers with obstructions done.

The first type of obstruction shows up on the left and right of the sink, which have these pop-up outlets that get installed into the countertop. They have some length and mass to them, which sink down inside of where the drawer box area would be. 

If you take a look back in here, you can see that the body of that pop-up outlet is going to be inside the area where the drawer box would go. I’m going to make a custom drawer that jogs around this popup outlet. And I will have to make two of them, one for the left side and one for the right side of the sink.

The drawers will look something like this. So I’m going to head down to the shop and start prepping the stock. I already pulled a few boards for this, so I need to just chop them up, mill them up, plane them down, cut some grooves, cut some stuff to length, etc. 

I’m going to join the sides to the fronts, and then cut and fit the back. 

The backs are basically three parts, which I will join with dovetails. So instead of 4 dovetail joints, there will be 6 in each drawer. I’m going to join all three back pieces together, and then join them to the sides.

Now that these pieces are joined, they should be the right length for a normal through back, which I can install the same way I would a normal back. So I’ll cut pins onto the ends of each of these width boards, and then I can transfer the pins to the sides and cut the tails into those side pieces.

The next obstructed drawers are over here, which has this charging station which drops into the top of the counter and extends down into the drawer cavity. 

I already built the front half of the drawers for that spot, but I’m going to notch out the side so that the charging station can nest with these drawers. 

Here is this weird style of drawer. The bar piece for the back actually provides a lot of functionality for the drawer, because if you didn’t have this here, it’d be pretty easy to put something in here that was too long or tall, and then that object would hit on the protrusion of the charging station.

So I’m going to get these installed, after putting on the drawer bottoms. I already made the drawer faces for these when I made the other drawers, so I will pop those on and these two will be done!

These notched drawers for the pop-up outlets also fit really nicely with good clearance for the outlets. I just have to modify the slide for the hook catch to be in the right position to catch the shorter end of the drawer box. I wouldn’t necessarily have to do that, but it makes the drawer more secure and makes for a better fit and finish. 

Next thing to get buttoned up is the sink base. This is going to be a pull-out tray behind a pair of double doors. I’m going to make a tray that fits in here based on what the plumbers and electricians have done to the back of the cabinet, and I also need to make the doors. 

I’m going to make the doors first, which you can see here on the plan elevation. Each door is supposed to look like two pieces of V-paneling that make up the door with that diamond detail which matches the one in the island. So let’s head down to the shop and make some doors. 

I’m going to cut and fit the doors to the opening first, because I don’t want to do all of the decorative work first only for the doors not to fit. 

Now I can start decorating the fronts. I’m going to put the V-groove down the middle, the edges will get a chamfer, and then I’ll pull out the template and put on the diamond detail. 

Here are the completed doors. Now they can come off and get some paint.

I already built the tray that will go underneath the sink. It’s built just like all the other drawers, just really short and it has a stopped groove for the bottom so you don’t have a little gap in the front. Because this tray has a high likelihood of getting wet, I’m going to coat the interior of this drawer with some epoxy. 

I’m not quite done with the sink base, but it’s looking pretty close to done. I still have the cold mold to put on here, and then this will get lighting as well as a soft closure mechanism, plus it still needs a toe kick, but… it’s starting to come together. 

Thank you as always for joining, I greatly appreciate it! For any questions or comments on the kitchen build, please feel free to leave me a comment. As always, I’d be happy to answer any questions you might have. Until next time, happy woodworking!