Building Cabinet Boxes

Many homeowners opt to build kitchen cabinets as part of their renovations in order to achieve a custom look without a huge price tag.

Building cabinet boxes.

Face frames cover plywood edges. Birch purebond plywood full sheets are best but 2 8 sheets would work as well. Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors. And if you have a bunch to build you ll need a lot of clamps and even more space.

That being said lets first go over the basic tools for building a cabinet box. We will not get into face frames or finishes in this post. To build a cabinet start by cutting panels for the bottom and sides out of mdf plywood or another type of laminate. Just an fyi this article will show how to build the boxes frameless.

Birch purebond plywood full sheets are best but 2 8 2 4 or 4 4 sheets would work as well. Hickory 2 4 purebond plywood panels. Build the cabinets buy the doors. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups.

The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Even without a major renovation adding new cabinets can change the overall feel of the room. In this video i discuss and demonstrate some simple methods for constructing cabinets.

Building kitchen cabinet doors is doable but can be tricky. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Then cut 4 pieces of 1 by 6 lumber to the same width as the bottom panel for the front back and top brace panels. For cabinet box construction you will need.

1 2 or 3 4 plywood.