The best-built drawers have side panels joined with dovetail joints, a set of depressions or cutouts in one panel matched by projections in the other — usually with interlocking triangular shapes that ...

A stubborn wooden drawer can slow down your entire routine. Small mechanical issues, moisture, or buildup often play a role in why it suddenly won't slide.

Sometimes drawers get stuck on their stuck on their tracks, making it difficult to pull them open. How-to illustrator Yumi Sakugawa points out that you can get them moving more smoothly if you ...