Building Wall Cabinets

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions.

Building wall cabinets.

The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Of hanging storage for tools and supplies. Whether you need new kitchen cabinets bathroom cabinets or more storage in your garage or basement the construction is the same. Cut your 1 4 frame boards to size.

Essentially you ll be building a plywood box called a carcass adding a solid wood face frame a couple of hanging cleats and finally some. Standard counter height is 36 with the cabinets usually being around 34 5 tall to allow room for the countertop material. Homemade cabinet jacks of 2 by 4 s with shingle wedges can be used to temporarily hold the upper case up in position and help level and plumb it until you can get it fastened. Use a higher grade pine it s worth the extra money to be able to work with straight knot.

Build this pegboard wall cabinet and you can turn 16 sq. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Of wall space into almost 48 sq. Begin building the base of the cabinets on the ground by laying out two 8 foot 2x4 boards on the floor parallel to the wall.

Face frames cover plywood edges. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Wall cabinets typically have one or more shelves not including the bottom of the cabinet and may or may not have doors. Upper cabinets are anchored to the wall with a nailer strip at the top and through the back into the studs as well as with screws through the back into the studs.

You can construct a wall cabinet by cutting the pieces to match your available space then carefully assembling them with a nail gun to make absolutely sure. Need more space for tools. This is a comprehensive video that gets into great detail on what is required to make kitchen cabinets including different styles of cabinet face frame and. For upper or wall cabinets add 18 20 to the 36 counter height.

Standard counter depth is 25 which the cabinets themselves being 24 to allow for a 1 countertop lip.