**Building Custom Storage Solutions: A Step-by-Step Guide**

In this article, we will explore the process of building custom storage solutions using dividers and drawers. The author shares their experience and expertise on how to create functional and aesthetically pleasing storage systems for any workshop or home.

The journey began with creating a customized cleat system in the cabinet. The author placed a scrap of wood on the bottom of the cleat to provide a stable surface for the dividers, followed by another scrap of wood as the floor of the drawer. A spacer block was used to create the correct distance between the two drawer slides and the side of the cabinet. This process required patience and attention to detail, but ultimately resulted in a precise fit.

The next step was to install the dividers themselves. The author employed a guideline system to ensure that each divider was installed square within the cabinet. A spacer block was used on one side of the divider, while a false divider was placed on the other side. This allowed for precise alignment and accurate spacing between the dividers. By extending the lines with a long t-square to the back of the cabinet, both legs of each divider could be secured in place.

As the author progressed through the installation process, they encountered various challenges. On one side of the section, face frame pieces were used to "jack up" the shelf and create a more even surface. The face frames were then sanded smooth and painted to match the surrounding area. Another section was built above this, with five smaller drawers that fit neatly into the space.

Each drawer was carefully crafted to meet the author's specific needs. In one section, two drawers were dedicated to storing blade and bit cleaning supplies. A third drawer contained a variety of spray paints, while another held caulk for future repairs. Two other drawers were filled with hardware and fasteners, including spax and stack screws.

The final section was built below the above-mentioned drawers, featuring wider drawers that could accommodate large tools like sandpaper and wood glue. Finally, one drawer contained pneumatic nails, which had previously been stored in flimsy boxes that fell apart easily. To solve this problem, the author created new containers out of quarter-inch MDF and spray-painted them with chalkboard paint for easy identification.

**Additional Resources**

For those interested in learning more about this project, the author recommends checking out their blog posts:

* A step-by-step guide on installing vertical dividers and drawer slides onto the drum parts and cabinet part.

* In-depth tutorials on building each section and drawer, including details on materials and techniques used.

Plans for the entire project are also available on the author's blog, providing a comprehensive blueprint for anyone looking to build their own custom storage solutions.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys I've been working in my workshop I built these tower cabinets four years ago when I moved in the house so I just now added all of these dividers stick around I'm going to show you how I built and installed these four organizers I do my cabinet opening is 15 inches tall so I'm building my vertical drawers 14 inches tall to make sure I have plenty of clearance above and below each drawer all of my drawers are custom-built for exactly what I want to store in them but they're all built basically the same with a back to sides and then shelves or dowels and I'll show you all of the drawers later then they're installed into the cabinet with a regular pair of drawer slides the first drawer slide will be installed onto the side of the cabinet I had a face frame so I had to block out the side of the cabinet making it flush with the face frame I use a 3/8 inch piece of scrap beadboard to set the glide on top of while I installed it this way I can make sure that my drawer does not scrape the bottom of my cabinet when I open and close it and then I used that same spacer block just set on top of that first slide to create the exact same distance between the two slides when I install them in the cabinet and on the drawer now on to the drawer part of this slide the slide is installed flush with the bottom of the drawer so I use a scrap of wood to you know line it up and make sure that it's flush I also use a scrap of wood on the front of the drawer to make sure that the front of the drawer slide is exactly flush with the drawer and then I use that same spacer block and to create the exact same distance between the two drawer slides on the drawer that I installed in the cabinet I'm using a self centering drill bit and drilling pilot holes for all of the screws so that I don't strip them out and the screws I'm using on the drawer since this is half-inch plywood they're just half-inch screws inside the cabinet that can be as long as your cabinet is thick I use 3/4 inch plywood in my cabinet so I can use pretty long screws then I'm gonna go ahead and test this out and make sure that it works and it does so moving on to the next drawers now I have to install vertical cleats inside the cabinet so I had something to attach the drawer to and there's not a whole lot of room to move around and send that little cubby so I'm securing the pair of drawer slides to the pair of cleats and then securing that whole configuration inside the cabinet to make sure that I leave my three-eighths inch gap at the bottom of the drawer slide on the cleat which is my cabinet part I put a scrap of wood on the bottom of the cleat so the cleats are sitting on top of a scrap of wood and then I put that 3/8 inch scrap of wood on top of the other scrap of wood that is acting as my cabinet floor budding the cat drawer glide up to that scrap and then securing it it's a little bit difficult to do with just two hands but it is doable so then remove the little scraps of wood and I've got a 3/8 inch space between my drawer side and the bottom of the crease and then again I use my spacer block to create the correct distance between the two drawer slides and get this I can't draw site installed so I just did this over and over again until I had all of my dividers put together and then it was time to put those into the cabinet before I install my dividers into the cabinet though I have to give myself some guidelines to follow so I can make sure that I get them installed square inside the cabinet so according to my math I cut a spacer and drew a line that marked the left side of the divider and then put down a false divider and marked the right side of that then I put the spacer block on the other side of the divider and marked that and just kept doing that across the cabinet until I had all of them marked then I used a long t-square and extended those lines to the back of the cabinet so both divider legs would hit the mark then I started installing my dividers I started on the right side so that I'd have a little more room to work with until I got to the very last one I secured the bottom pocket screws and then the top and he used my same spacer on the right side of the cabinet to hold my divider in place while I drove the pocket screws and that worked really well when it got down to the very last divider I had hardly any room to work with so I put on a shorter pocket hole screw bit and just got in there and got it done and after I finished building all of my drawers I just slid them into place on the all worked beautifully now on this section I added face frame dividers because the shelf and face frame above this section seemed to a boat a little bit so I jacked it up using face paint pieces and then I just sanded it smooth and painted and all all's well that ends well and then I installed my face friends and drawer pulls and I have another video that gives you all of my tips for that so look for that if you are interested so I installed this section of four drawers and then built a whole nother section above it with five smaller drawers and another section below with three drawers and they're all customized for what I want to or so I've got all of my blade and bit cleaning supplies and then a little compartment in the front for the brushes so they don't fall down and get lost I have one drawer right here that has a whole bunch of caulk in it and I can kind of mix it up and change things around when I need to currently I have two drawers that are full of spray paint this one has a shelf on the top with a little lip on it so I can store cans of stain like I have in this drawer but I've still got plenty of room in here so I don't currently need any more storage space but room to grow is always a good thing and then this section right here is all of my fasteners and spax is a sadhas Girl sponsor so I've got a lot of stack screws and I've got them all organized so I can find exactly what I want when I want it this bottom section has wider drawers and I have sand paper in one all my wood glue and wood putty spreading tools and tape on the top and this is just a piece of wood cut at a 45 degree angle that I put on the front and back of this top shelf so that the rolls of tape don't roll off and this last drawer is all of my pneumatic nails and a lot of my boxes were just falling apart so I created little boxes out of quarter inch MDF and spray painted the front of them with chalkboard paint so that I could label the nail sizes so I know exactly what is where so that is my new storage in my workshop I have two blog posts on my blog if you want to check the video description I'll give you links to that one is step by step the process of installing the vertical dividers and the drawer slides onto the drum parts and the cabinet part another blog post showing how to build the drawers and more details on each section and each drawer that I don't also I have plans available on my blog so check that out and thank you so much for watching I'll see you next timehey guys I've been working in my workshop I built these tower cabinets four years ago when I moved in the house so I just now added all of these dividers stick around I'm going to show you how I built and installed these four organizers I do my cabinet opening is 15 inches tall so I'm building my vertical drawers 14 inches tall to make sure I have plenty of clearance above and below each drawer all of my drawers are custom-built for exactly what I want to store in them but they're all built basically the same with a back to sides and then shelves or dowels and I'll show you all of the drawers later then they're installed into the cabinet with a regular pair of drawer slides the first drawer slide will be installed onto the side of the cabinet I had a face frame so I had to block out the side of the cabinet making it flush with the face frame I use a 3/8 inch piece of scrap beadboard to set the glide on top of while I installed it this way I can make sure that my drawer does not scrape the bottom of my cabinet when I open and close it and then I used that same spacer block just set on top of that first slide to create the exact same distance between the two slides when I install them in the cabinet and on the drawer now on to the drawer part of this slide the slide is installed flush with the bottom of the drawer so I use a scrap of wood to you know line it up and make sure that it's flush I also use a scrap of wood on the front of the drawer to make sure that the front of the drawer slide is exactly flush with the drawer and then I use that same spacer block and to create the exact same distance between the two drawer slides on the drawer that I installed in the cabinet I'm using a self centering drill bit and drilling pilot holes for all of the screws so that I don't strip them out and the screws I'm using on the drawer since this is half-inch plywood they're just half-inch screws inside the cabinet that can be as long as your cabinet is thick I use 3/4 inch plywood in my cabinet so I can use pretty long screws then I'm gonna go ahead and test this out and make sure that it works and it does so moving on to the next drawers now I have to install vertical cleats inside the cabinet so I had something to attach the drawer to and there's not a whole lot of room to move around and send that little cubby so I'm securing the pair of drawer slides to the pair of cleats and then securing that whole configuration inside the cabinet to make sure that I leave my three-eighths inch gap at the bottom of the drawer slide on the cleat which is my cabinet part I put a scrap of wood on the bottom of the cleat so the cleats are sitting on top of a scrap of wood and then I put that 3/8 inch scrap of wood on top of the other scrap of wood that is acting as my cabinet floor budding the cat drawer glide up to that scrap and then securing it it's a little bit difficult to do with just two hands but it is doable so then remove the little scraps of wood and I've got a 3/8 inch space between my drawer side and the bottom of the crease and then again I use my spacer block to create the correct distance between the two drawer slides and get this I can't draw site installed so I just did this over and over again until I had all of my dividers put together and then it was time to put those into the cabinet before I install my dividers into the cabinet though I have to give myself some guidelines to follow so I can make sure that I get them installed square inside the cabinet so according to my math I cut a spacer and drew a line that marked the left side of the divider and then put down a false divider and marked the right side of that then I put the spacer block on the other side of the divider and marked that and just kept doing that across the cabinet until I had all of them marked then I used a long t-square and extended those lines to the back of the cabinet so both divider legs would hit the mark then I started installing my dividers I started on the right side so that I'd have a little more room to work with until I got to the very last one I secured the bottom pocket screws and then the top and he used my same spacer on the right side of the cabinet to hold my divider in place while I drove the pocket screws and that worked really well when it got down to the very last divider I had hardly any room to work with so I put on a shorter pocket hole screw bit and just got in there and got it done and after I finished building all of my drawers I just slid them into place on the all worked beautifully now on this section I added face frame dividers because the shelf and face frame above this section seemed to a boat a little bit so I jacked it up using face paint pieces and then I just sanded it smooth and painted and all all's well that ends well and then I installed my face friends and drawer pulls and I have another video that gives you all of my tips for that so look for that if you are interested so I installed this section of four drawers and then built a whole nother section above it with five smaller drawers and another section below with three drawers and they're all customized for what I want to or so I've got all of my blade and bit cleaning supplies and then a little compartment in the front for the brushes so they don't fall down and get lost I have one drawer right here that has a whole bunch of caulk in it and I can kind of mix it up and change things around when I need to currently I have two drawers that are full of spray paint this one has a shelf on the top with a little lip on it so I can store cans of stain like I have in this drawer but I've still got plenty of room in here so I don't currently need any more storage space but room to grow is always a good thing and then this section right here is all of my fasteners and spax is a sadhas Girl sponsor so I've got a lot of stack screws and I've got them all organized so I can find exactly what I want when I want it this bottom section has wider drawers and I have sand paper in one all my wood glue and wood putty spreading tools and tape on the top and this is just a piece of wood cut at a 45 degree angle that I put on the front and back of this top shelf so that the rolls of tape don't roll off and this last drawer is all of my pneumatic nails and a lot of my boxes were just falling apart so I created little boxes out of quarter inch MDF and spray painted the front of them with chalkboard paint so that I could label the nail sizes so I know exactly what is where so that is my new storage in my workshop I have two blog posts on my blog if you want to check the video description I'll give you links to that one is step by step the process of installing the vertical dividers and the drawer slides onto the drum parts and the cabinet part another blog post showing how to build the drawers and more details on each section and each drawer that I don't also I have plans available on my blog so check that out and thank you so much for watching I'll see you next time\n"