Anyone build their own cabinets?

maa139 · Apr 6, 2006

I'm constantly on the lookout for old kitchen cabinets from a remodel. I'm also too cheap to just go buy some from Lowes. I was given some very nice cabinet grade plywood by a neighbor and was thinking of using it to make my own. If you've already made your own, lets see them!

Matt

66RICH · Apr 7, 2006

maa139 said:
I'm constantly on the lookout for old kitchen cabinets from a remodel. I'm also too cheap to just go buy some from Lowes. I was given some very nice cabinet grade plywood by a neighbor and was thinking of using it to make my own. If you've already made your own, lets see them!

Matt

Matt:
Here's a few pics, I built shelves first year's ago out of 3/4" particle
board 12" deep. Later I added 1/4" finished plywood doors, after
several years the top cabinet doors warped slightly so I decided to
change them. Manards had some wide white 3/4" shelving with one
rounded edge that I cut up for doors. I rounded all the edges for a
nicer look, and painted them all grey with new hardware about a year
ago. It was a fun project, the new hidden hinges are fully adjustable,
and easy to install, the rounded edges make a less than perfect fit
look good.
Good luck, Rich

Kevin54 · Apr 9, 2006

A place a couple of towns west of here sells cabinets and gets door fronts and drawer fronts in by the truckloads. The are seconds as the grain might not be exactly right, or a hinge hole is in the wrong place. The thing is that the doors go for $5.00 a piece already finished. That with a few 2x's and some OSB and we are good to go. The top cupboards are made out of 1 X 12's with 1 x 3 stiles (facing). Not much money involved for all of the storage space.

FiddyFour · Apr 9, 2006

Kevin54 said:
Not much money involved for all of the storage space.

nice cabs... i for one would love to see more shots of your car

Chaz · Apr 9, 2006

I was a cabinet shop foreman for a while, and particleboard is well suited to making cabinets. If built right they are strong and durable as well as cheap to construct. For extra durability you can get the particleboard melamine coated.

After these were built I skinned them with aluminum treadplate.. Total cost 200 bucks for 20 feet of shiny cabs.

rockwithjason · Apr 10, 2006

New yankee workshop has a set of plans available to make cabinets from one sheet of ply. one sheet makes one good cabinet. that's what I would do.

smooth72 · Apr 10, 2006

All the bottom cabinets have drawers/shelves in them with 300 pound sliders that allow you to put a chop saw etc. in the them easy and slide them in. It also allows to see everything in the cabinet. :thumbup:

Robbo · Apr 11, 2006

rockwithjason said:
New yankee workshop has a set of plans available to make cabinets from one sheet of ply. one sheet makes one good cabinet. that's what I would do.

Any idea where that is? I looked around the site but didn't any of the cabinet plans that specifed that they could be made with one sheet of ply...

:beer:

Rob

carcentric · Apr 11, 2006

I guess I mixed two methods. I "built" my shop cabinets in the sense that I bought knock-down cabinet kits from Home Depot and assembled them. They are white melamine (or similar) over MDF. The two cabinets under my workbench are 3-drawer (18" wide x 24" deep) kitchen base units, and the five wall units over the workbench are similar, but have three 12" wide x 12" deep adjustable-height shelves - and I left the doors off so I could see what's inside.

The other method - reusing cabinets - also fits, because the base cabinets were in a portable kitchen "island" I put together in our last home, and the open wall units were hung on a bedroom wall as a sort of storage headboard.

I really don't enjoy what my father referred to as "wood butcherin'" so the assembly-required method was ideal for me. No sawing, no sawdust, just glue and screw. And since they were the cheapest cabinets in the store, I don't think you could replicate them from scratch for any less expense.

maa139 · Apr 14, 2006

Okay, so literally the night that I rip all of my plywood to start making cabinets, my wife tells me that she's going to HD with her mother to design a new kitchen. After I stop laughing, I tell her to let her mother know that I want all of the old cabinets!

Matt

ChucksCrib · Apr 14, 2006

Robbo said:
Any idea where that is? I looked around the site but didn't any of the cabinet plans that specifed that they could be made with one sheet of ply...

Rob

Me too bro. I hope it is not a dwg. that we would have to pay for

FiddyFour · Apr 14, 2006

ChucksCrib said:
Me too bro. I hope it is not a dwg. that we would have to pay for

why is that?

there are several freeware and also shareware applications out there that can read or/and alter autodesk .dwg files

ChucksCrib · Apr 14, 2006

FiddyFour said:
why is that?

there are several freeware and also shareware applications out there that can read or/and alter autodesk .dwg files

Have you been to the site? All of the plans that I could find on that site need to be purchased

FiddyFour · Apr 14, 2006

one of those kinda deals... gotcha.

let me look around my woodworking stuff... i have a set of plans for the "one sheet cab" for bases... i'll find it and scan it into the machine

Rothaus · Apr 22, 2006

Here are some storage solutions I made for my wood work shop. There are no cabinets, however, I see what I have and where it is. I like the plasic jars from the nuts and spices, I see always what I got.

I have a 10foot section just white wall cabinets at the back wall of my shop.

BTW: this is the 10 ft section of my 26x36 detached garage. The garage parts is not finished yet :sad:

Cheers

70pcuda · Apr 24, 2006

Kevin54 said:
A place a couple of towns west of here sells cabinets and gets door fronts and drawer fronts in by the truckloads. The are seconds as the grain might not be exactly right, or a hinge hole is in the wrong place. The thing is that the doors go for $5.00 a piece already finished. That with a few 2x's and some OSB and we are good to go. The top cupboards are made out of 1 X 12's with 1 x 3 stiles (facing). Not much money involved for all of the storage space.

So what town do I get these in? I'm in Sidney, might have to look into this.

Thanks

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