DIY Jewelry Organizer – Building My Jewelry Drawer With Glass Countertop

So with that in thoughts, right here’s how the entire setup seems to be proper now.

After I completed constructing the drawer final night time, I wasn’t positive if I needed so as to add trim to the entrance. However this morning, I made a decision that I’ll most likely add this tiny trim to the drawer simply to offer it a bit of one thing additional.

And I additionally haven’t picked out drawer and cupboard {hardware} for the room, so as soon as I decide that out, I’ll add two pulls or two knobs to the drawer. I can’t resolve if I need to use one thing actually particular, or if I need to preserve it easy with the drawer and door pulls. I’m nonetheless trying.

So let me present you the way I constructed this jewellery organizer. I began by figuring out the peak of the glass shelf, and I lower and nailed a 1″x2″ simply behind the cupboard trim in that cupboard.

After which utilizing extra 1″x2″ lumber, I continued including the body across the sides and the again of the cupboards. To assemble your complete body, I used two layers of 1″x2″ lumber on the entrance, two layers of 1″x2″ lumber on either side, and only one 1″x2″ on the again of the cupboard. I nailed all of those in place utilizing 16-gauge nails in my nail gun. And you may see that the second 1″x2″ piece on the entrance of the body sat flush with the entrance trim on the cupboard.

With that fundamental body in place, right here’s the way it seemed inside the cupboard. The opening inside that body is the precise measurement of the glass that I ordered, plus about 1/8-inch in every path in order that I’d have 1/16-inch wiggle room on all 4 sides of the glass…

After which I wanted so as to add the help for the glass. For this, I used my desk noticed to tear items of 1″x2″ lumber (which are literally 1.5 inches vast and never 2 inches vast) in order that they have been 1.25″ vast and 1/2″ thick. I lower these with my miter noticed to the right lengths to suit inside that body, after which I hooked up them in order that the underside edges of these items have been flush with the underside edges of the body items, leaving a 1/4-inch rabbet on high to help my 1/4-inch tempered glass.

Once more, I received a bit of forward of myself with the wooden filler, however I feel you possibly can nonetheless see the general building. So once more, on the entrance and sides, I had two layers of 1″x2″ lumber (which are literally 1.5 inches vast), and simply inside these I hooked up one layer of strips ripped to 1.25″ x .5″.

As soon as that body with the rabbet was constructed, I examined the match of the glass. It was good!

After testing the match of the glass, I eliminated it for protected storage and constructed the drawer, which I made out of 1/2-inch plywood.

I didn’t take photos of the method for constructing the drawer just because I’ve constructed so many drawers previously you could refer again to should you want that information.

Earlier than constructing the drawer, I put in the drawer slides. To make it possible for my drawer slides would clear the facet trim on the cupboards, I first hooked up items of 1″x3″ lumber (which is definitely 3/4″ x 2.5″) behind the entrance cupboard trim slightly below the glass countertop body, nailed in place utilizing 16-guage nails, after which I put in the drawer slides on high of these 1″x3″ items. Then I measured the gap between the drawer slides (that distance for this drawer was 42 5/8″), and I constructed my drawer to suit that width. So the skin dimensions of the completed drawer field is 42 5/8″ x 16″.

And at last, I lower a chunk of 1″x4″ (precise measurement is 3/4″ x 3.5″) pre-primed lumber to make use of because the drawer entrance, and I hooked up it to the entrance of the drawer field, first tacking it into place utilizing 18-gauge nails, after which screwing it to the drawer entrance utilizing 1″ wooden screws which are screwed via the within of the drawer field and into the again of the drawer entrance to safe it into place.

And with that, the essential construct of my jewellery drawer with the glass countertop was completed!

I’m so happy with how this turned out. I’ve to confess that I used to be nervous about this mission as a result of I’ve by no means constructed something like this earlier than, and I knew it needed to be excellent in order that it didn’t appear to be an apparent DIY mission. Nevertheless it turned out precisely as I envisioned it.

And, in fact, it’ll look even higher as soon as every part is caulked and painted. I haven’t determined precisely how I need to end the within of the drawer but. I do know that almost all customized jewellery drawers are lined with velvet or one thing fancy like that, however I actually don’t have the persistence or the need to spend days of my time masking tiny items of wooden to create small velvet-lined compartments. It’s simply not that necessary to me. So I’ve thought of simply lining the underside of the drawer with velvet or velveteen or one thing like that (if I may even discover a good coordinating shade) after which portray the wooden that makes up the small compartments in the identical shade.

Or I may simply paint the entire thing and forgo the flowery velvet altogether. If I paint it the entire thing, I believed it is perhaps enjoyable to color it one of many corals that I examined out for the cupboards simply so as to add a contact of a coordinating shade to this space. In spite of everything, the part of cupboard simply above this glass-top countertop will probably be wallpapered, so it would look nice to carry that coral shade in with this drawer.

I’m so enthusiastic about how this turned out. This mission was really a lot simpler than I believed it could be.

However I do suppose I want so as to add some trim to the drawer entrance simply to make it apparent that it’s a drawer. After all, including drawer pulls may also make it apparent that it’s a drawer.

And now the ultimate factor that I have to construct is the necklace storage that may go within the open part slightly below the jewellery drawer. I’m nonetheless making an attempt to work out the small print of that. I feel I nearly have it, however I’m not fairly there but.

And I additionally want to determine the small print of how I need to end the within of this drawer — what number of compartments, what number of of every measurement, what shade/end, and so on. However the hardest half is finished.

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