I posted recently about how I'd been on a bit of a home improvement hiatus. But... sometimes a project is born out of necessity, not because I think it will be fun or will make the house look nice. And that's what happened today! I was making some tasty pumpkin muffins with my son (ahh, fall!) when one of my kitchen drawers stopped opening all the way. It happens to be the drawer where I keep measuring cups and stuff like that, so it was sort of important to the whole baking process. After grumbling about it for a bit, I decided to have a little look-see at what was going on. And this is what I saw:
Yup. The dovetail joint holding the two sides together had come apart. Luckily, that's a pretty easy fix! I pulled everything out of the drawer (the most annoying part), and found our little squeeze bottle of yellow wood glue (side note: everybody should own wood glue. EVERYBODY!).
The next step was to apply the glue to the ends of the dovetails. I borrowed one of the kids' paintbrushes and went to work slathering it on there. I didn't worry about being neat with it, since it wipes off really easily with a wet paper towel (as long as you do it right away). I smooshed everything back into place and wiped up the glue:
And that was it! The whole thing took about five minutes. Everything stayed in place on its own, or else I would've clamped it. But in this case, that wasn't necessary. After some drying time, the drawer is as good as new. Success!!
This is nice technique for fixing kitchen drawer. Thank you for sharing.
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