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How To Fix Your Drawers

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1 How To Fix Your Drawers

1.1 The Excuses

2 How To Fix Your Drawers – Where It Starts To Go Bad

3 How To Fix Your Drawers – From Bad To Worse

4 How To Fix Your Drawers – When Your Wife Isn’t Happy

5 How To Fix Your Drawers When You’ve Three Drawers Down One Drawer Left

6 Please Fix The Drawer

7 How To Fix Your Drawers – Deconstruction Before The Construction

8 How To Fix Your Drawers – Construction Begins

9 The Value of A Happy Wife

10 In Retrospect

10.1 Proverbs 10:4-5 (from the Bible Gateway) ESV

The Excuses

Well, it has been a while and I have been forced uh, er… encouraged to do a post on my recent household honey-do list cross-off marathon. I am not much of a writer and so this all does not come easily. Or I guess naturally for me. But here I am and here we are so let’s talk about how to fix your drawers.

How To Fix Your Drawers – Where It Starts To Go Bad

Well, it all started with the silverware drawer and too much silverware. You know the story, it is all good and fine until one day and the bottom drops out and silverware is all in your Tupperware and it is just one hot mess down there. Follow me, you guys? Come on, we can be real here, right?

How To Fix Your Drawers – From Bad To Worse


My very broken drawer.

Well, next we find a handyman (not me) that was some friend’s boyfriend (you get this, right?) and he took the drawer. OK, 2 drawers – we had to put the silverware someplace… it couldn’t stay in the Tupperware drawer now. So and so takes it and gives it to said boyfriend who knows how to fix your drawers and who is not heard of again. The guy leaves the aforementioned drawers out in the rain and snow (insert unhappy wife face here). The girl and guy break up and the drawers are in trouble.

How To Fix Your Drawers – When Your Wife Isn’t Happy

At this Point, my wife is REALLY not happy. Finally, this lady gets them back from the now ex-boyfriend and returns them to my unhappy wife and I deal with it by sticking them in the dark recesses of the garage (ahem).

Well… forward a year… ok-ok forward about 10 years? I don’t know, who is counting? The thing is in the garage! Who thinks about that stuff?

How To Fix Your Drawers When You’ve Three Drawers Down One Drawer Left

Anyway, the third drawer breaks and the fourth (sharp knife drawer) is going. Wife looks at me and says, “Honey, this is the last drawer, when are you going to figure out how to fix your drawers?” Well, It wasn’t so bad. The one over the Tupperware was a great one for the return drop for all things plastic. It was like returning the movies at Blockbuster… well before Blockbuster died and became a thing of the past. But still, there was a slight thrill as you heard it clang down on the rest of the plastic (shhh don’t tell wife this. She always wonders why that thing is a mess… he, he). I was about to share this with her and then I looked at her face. Anyway, I guess the thought of another dropbox for the pans and one for the bowls was not so exciting to her.

Please Fix The Drawer

OK, so here I was, warned by the wife that the final drawer is taking a powder. I was asked to make a soap mold for the girls. Here I am making this pretty mold. Here she notices that it looks amazingly like a strong and beautiful drawer (I am going down fella’s). I look at it helplessly. As much as I hate to admit it, it looks like a drawer. So back to trusty home improvement store to buy more strong beautiful wood (1/2″X 4″ poplar for the sides and 1/4″ thick poplar sheet for the bottom). I am officially working on the drawer project (long overdue, but don’t tell her I said that).

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How To Fix Your Drawers – Deconstruction Before The Construction

So, I started taking the drawer pieces apart and measured them. Taking those measurements I cut the wood that I bought at Lowe’s to those sizes.

How To Fix Your Drawers – Construction Begins

I glued the pieces with wood glue and clamped them together and let set for 30 minutes and then started the assembly. I pre-drilled the holes for my nails so we would have a neat finished product and the wood would not crack. Here I am working on this below.

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Nailing the drawer together after pre-drilling holes.

The next step is hooking the bottom of the drawer to the box. I cut the wood to specifications using my jigsaw then began nailing around the edges.


Nailing the bottom of the drawer on.

I had removed the drawer face from the old junky drawer and fastened it to the front of the drawer box that I just finished using screws. Look how pretty it is!


Clamping the drawer front to the box as I screw it into place

From here I took the rails off of the old drawer and placed them on the new ones with the overhang in the back.

The Value of A Happy Wife

Here it is as I am putting it in. Pretty great if I do say so myself and do you know the value of a really happy wife? It is priceless.

In Retrospect

I must say I felt pretty bad about not doing it sooner and letting myself talk myself out of it. Sad that I was thinking I couldn’t do it. Fear of failure is pretty lame. I did it and it felt really good.
It is a great way to make your kitchen look better. It can be done on a budget and not spend 50 thousand dollars on a new kitchen.
The wood can be cut by the nice guys and gals at your home improvement store and this honestly can be done at home by people that are not very handy normally and the look is amazing and it is so much stronger.

Proverbs 10:4-5 (from the Bible Gateway) ESV

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.

Thank you for joining me and learning how to fix your drawers. I think we had some fun and I hope you learned a little bit about a basic way to fix your home.

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Before you go, check out these other posts

How To Fix Your Drawers

How To Fix Your Drawers

The Excuses

How To Fix Your Drawers – Where It Starts To Go Bad

How To Fix Your Drawers – From Bad To Worse

How To Fix Your Drawers – When Your Wife Isn’t Happy

How To Fix Your Drawers When You’ve Three Drawers Down One Drawer Left

Please Fix The Drawer

How To Fix Your Drawers – Deconstruction Before The Construction

How To Fix Your Drawers – Construction Begins

The Value of A Happy Wife

In Retrospect

Proverbs 10:4-5 (from the Bible Gateway) ESV

About The Author

Rosevine Cottage Girls

How To Fix Your Drawers

The Excuses

How To Fix Your Drawers – Where It Starts To Go Bad

How To Fix Your Drawers – From Bad To Worse

How To Fix Your Drawers – When Your Wife Isn’t Happy

How To Fix Your Drawers When You’ve Three Drawers Down One Drawer Left

Please Fix The Drawer

How To Fix Your Drawers – Deconstruction Before The Construction

How To Fix Your Drawers – Construction Begins

The Value of A Happy Wife

In Retrospect

Proverbs 10:4-5 (from the Bible Gateway) ESV

About The Author

Rosevine Cottage Girls

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