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   user-148830 | Aug 01, 2007 12:02am | #1

   Kent,
   If I understand your question correctly you want some way of dividing up any cabinet face so that all your drawers end up with the same height. I will answer this question, but my apologies if I screwed this up and didn't understand you right. Let me first say that dividing up a cabinet into drawers is better done with graduated drawer sizes. Evenly sized drawers don't always look great with an upper drawer always looking bigger than the same sized drawer underneath it.

   Here's a simple method for evenly sized drawers. You can add up all the parts in your case that will be visible with the drawers. So if you're using a face frame and have 2" wide rails plus 1" rails in between each of 4 drawer faces, then add up all the rails: 2" + 2" + 3" = 7". Subtract 7" from the full height of your case and divide the remainder by 4 for your 4 drawers.

   If you have no face frame and just show drawer faces, take a long ruler and put one end of it on one edge of the case and rotate the ruler until the other edge of the case falls on a number easily divisible by the number of drawers you want. Say you want 4 drawers. So one end is 0 at one edge and the other rotates until you hit 12 at the other edge. The angle isn't important. Then at 3" and 6" and 9" make marks and draw lines in parallel to the top and bottom edges of the case front. These lines will divide the case up evenly into 4 drawer faces.

   A simple method for dividing graduated drawer faces that step up in height is to use an arithemetic progression: x+1, x+2, etc. with x being the smallest drawer on top. Another way is to add on the same amount to each drawer for the next drawer down. These kind of drawer progressions will generally give you something more interesting to look at. And don't forget the Fibonacci series and Hambidge progressions when dividing up drawers. But that's another whole ball of wax. Have fun. Gary

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   KENTB | Aug 01, 2007 12:37am | #2

   Thanks for the reply.  I will study it more tonight.  You did understand what my question was.  I presume then the drawer fits on the back of the face in the middle of the face.