Day 1, I went in with a plan of being able to get all of my pieces cut for the stairs and drawer, and then laying everything out to see how it looked. Hopefully I would have been able to start fastening some pieces together. After examining my cut list, I started cutting the pieces for the stairs. I decided that after the pieces for the stairs were cut that I would start fastening some of the pieces together using pocket screws. I was not going to be able to build the drawer until the steps were done, so I decided that I should complete the stairs before I started anything to do with the drawers. Below you will see pictures of the cut pieces for the stairs, and what the risers looked like after being pocket screwed together.
Day 2
After finishing both risers, the previous day, I came back with the intentions of fastening and completing the stairs, hoping to start on the drawer. After everything was fastened together, and measurements were taking again to make sure everything was correct, then came the cutting of the pieces for the drawer. After cutting the pieces for the drawer, and using a piece of scrap 1/4" luan for the base of the drawer, I realized that someone had misplaced my drawer slides from the original place I left them with my wood. I determined the only thing for me to do was to go back to Home Depot the next day, and get new slides. Below you will see pictures of the finished stairs without the drawer, the cut pieces for the drawer, and the finished drawer without the drawer slides.
| Top: Completed drawer, with no slides Middle: Completes stairs with no drawer Bottom: Cut pieces for the drawer |
On day 3, I came back to the shop with a new set of drawer slides, and attached them to the drawer and the insides of the stairs where the drawer was going to go. After attaching everything and getting the drawer in, I realized that the drawer was created with the face being 1/8" higher on one side than the other. This made the drawer hard to open and not aesthetically pleasing. I decided the best thing for me to do was to take the drawer out, break off all of the side pieces, bottom, and back that were all glued and stapled down. This process took way longer than I was expecting, although rebuilding it seemed to be quick, since I had already done it previously. I finished the drawer and put in back onto the staircase as the shop was closing for the day. I came back the next morning (Day 4) with only one task, to sand and smooth all the the stairs and edges so that there was no sharp points that my dog stepped on or that anyone bumped into. Below you will see pictures of the slides attached to the drawer, and the final product, a 3-step unit with a drawer connected to the bottom step.
| Top: Finished drawer with slides attached. Bottom: Completed and sanded final project. 3-Step unit with a slide drawer. |
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