Building Upper Wall Cabinets

Build the cabinets buy the doors.

Building upper wall cabinets.

Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors. Build the upper cabinets with the same techniques and materials used for the uprights. Instead of installing upper cabinets you could simply run a long shelf across the tops of the upright cabinets. Face frames cover plywood edges.

We ll build a cabinet carcass. The cabinet width can be anywhere from 12 60 but always should be made in 3 increments. After reviewing plans and other articles on the topic i was disappointed in the options out there for diy cabinets. Building kitchen cabinet doors is doable but can be tricky.

And if you have a bunch to build you ll need a lot of clamps and even more space. 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. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. How to build diy upper cabinets.

Any space left over between that distance and your ceiling is fair game for upper cabinets. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. So here is how we did it. We decided that to add 4 cabinets across the laundry room to replace the builder grade shelf that was existing and hide all our stuff.

The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. It sometimes requires powerful and expensive wood shaping equipment. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Because of its simplicity a wall cabinet is ideal for demonstrating the key benefit of frameless construction.

The upper cabinets provide deep enclosed storage space and tie the upright cabinets together so they can t twist away from the wall. Get plans to build these cabinets. Custom built upper cabinets are a great way to utilize unused space and can add plenty of storage.