And at the moment our floating fridge was looking pretty much the exact opposite.
Building a cabinet around a fridge.
Best online cabinets shows you how to make installing wall cabinets over the refrigerator easier and look polished.
We dressed up the top with crown moulding will share a post on this soon too and added doors from cabinet now.
Building the fridge cabinet once we figured out all the logistics in this small space the build was pretty straight forward.
Choose a finish or a trim kit for the refrigerator that matches the cabinetry to help it blend in.
I now have a convenient out of the way home for my cookbooks.
The fun part is putting the rest together.
For the side panels use a 5 4 inch stock.
Not a fun job but it gave us more room to build our custom refrigerator cabinet.
The deepest cabinet is around the refrigerator with display cabinets above.
Start by taking measurements of counter depth refrigerator taking notes of the standard depth of a fridge or your custom built fridge and taking that into notice start looking into refrigerator matching cabinet s do not forget the space above the refrigerator as it can be useful to put.
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The small cabinets were covered and i put a shelf over the fridge instead.
Check out this refrigerator cabinet that i built.
We floored around the cabinets as the floor is floating and finished out the base in quarter round moulding more details on that coming soon.
Building the cabinet frame is simple.
Fridge cabinet secured in place.
Then attach 1 4 inch plywood to the back of the upper cabinet.
The basic pieces are an mdf wood panel for the side and a box for the cabinet also made with mdf.
Once your refrigerator is in place you can start building the cabinet around it.
This video is part of the ongoing boc hom.
Step 3 build the cabinet frame.
On the end is a tall open cabinet that creates an interesting visual display as one enters the kitchen.
That s where an also less than schmancy 19 cabinet from the habitat for humanity restore mentioned yesterday came in handy it s 12 tall and 36 wide the exact width of our fridge.
Note that this cabinet is actually pulled back a few inches from the refrigerator depth so it continues the stepped look and also makes that corner a little less.
M a t e r i a l s u s e d.
Building cabinetry around the refrigerator requires no demolition making it a relatively easy and inexpensive option.
Meaning i coudn t get the cabinets above the fridge down without hurting the ones next to it so i had to scratch that idea.
Kitchen cabinets around refrigerator are great to hide an ugly fridge or to gain more storage space.