Drawer technology is driven primarily by the needs of the kitchen market. With kitchens the needs are strength, resilience and cost reduction by pushing down the number of components required to build a drawer. This has resulted in a number of drawerbox solutions based on metal sides. Metal also has the advantage that it can easily be wiped down with a wet cloth. There are some great systems available such as Blum Legrabox and Tandembox....
Where the drawer box or drawer front is made from either Birch Ply or MDF then routed handles are a possibility. To make the handle comfortable to use the starting size is ideally around 100mm wide by 30 - 50mm high. The handle can become a feature though so the width can be extended. Routed cutout handle The routed cutout handle goes all the way through the drawer front. Birch ply drawer with routed handle cutout Notes:...
Zero protrusion hinges are a good hinge choice for drawers behind doors Zero protrusion hinges used with internal drawers When you have drawers situated behind doors there needs to be preparation to ensure the door does not obstruct the drawer opening. With a regular hinge when the door is in the open position, the door overlaps the open space by around 10mm whereas a zero-protrusion hinge does not impinge into the open space....
The neatest drawer runner type for residential houses is the bottom mount runner. The advantages are: fits under the drawer box so visually it is unobtrusive and in many cases invisible the weight of the drawer contents is supported underneath by the drawer runner so the possibility of the drawer bottom falling out is dramatically reduced the weight of the drawer/contents is borne by the drawer runner rather than relying on screws driven in the side of the drawer box Bottom mount versus side mount drawer runners When are side-mounted drawer runners appropriate?...