What do you do with all that unused space under your deck? Why not make it useful and build a few pullout draws. You can never have too much storage space.
The next question is: Should you build the draws yourself or buy prebuilt ones? Their are some ready made options out there. For example the Pylex Deck Storage Drawers. Or you could choose to build your own draws and slide system. This is what we recently did for a client.
The draws are made out of treated lumber. We used 1 5/8″ Unistrut and some rollers for the draw slides. In our case, we did not build a lid to keep the water out. Our deck was covered by a roof, but we did drill a few holes in the bottom of the draw just in case some water did make it in. Our draws were made very similar to the way April Wilkerson made her draws in the video below.
If you need more storage around the house (and who doesn’t) why not build a few of these draws. It makes a good weekend project.
