Building Upper Wall Cabinets

Build the upper cabinets with the same techniques and materials used for the uprights.

Building upper wall cabinets.

The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Building kitchen cabinet doors is doable but can be tricky. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Custom built upper cabinets are a great way to utilize unused space and can add plenty of storage.

In this episode we ll walk through the basics of building upper cabinets that will work great in your laundry room or kitchen. 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. How to build diy upper cabinets. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.

So here is how we did it. It sometimes requires powerful and expensive wood shaping equipment. Face frames cover plywood edges. For upper or wall cabinets add 18 20 to the 36 counter height.

Get plans to build these cabinets. Building plywood upper kitchen cabinets even spectacular upper kitchen cabinets can be made simply with only a few pieces of hardware and some relatively straightforward construction. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. The upper cabinets provide deep enclosed storage space and tie the upright cabinets together so they can t twist away from the wall.

And if you have a bunch to build you ll need a lot of clamps and even more space. Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors. Because of its simplicity a wall cabinet is ideal for demonstrating the key benefit of frameless construction. Instead of installing upper cabinets you could simply run a long shelf across the tops of the upright cabinets.

The cabinet width can be anywhere from 12 60 but always should be made in 3 increments. Any space left over between that distance and your ceiling is fair game for upper cabinets. After reviewing plans and other articles on the topic i was disappointed in the options out there for diy cabinets.