Building Cabinet Boxes

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions.

Building cabinet boxes. 1 2 or 3 4 plywood. Hickory 2 4 purebond plywood panels. Birch purebond plywood full sheets are best but 2 8 2 4 or 4 4 sheets would work as well. To build a cabinet start by cutting panels for the bottom and sides out of mdf plywood or another type of laminate.

Wether you are looking to make some cabinets for. What you will need to build your own diy kitchen cabinets. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Many homeowners opt to build kitchen cabinets as part of their renovations in order to achieve a custom look without a huge price tag.

Just an fyi this article will show how to build the boxes frameless. It sometimes requires powerful and expensive wood shaping equipment. Building kitchen cabinet doors is doable but can be tricky. Even without a major renovation adding new cabinets can change the overall feel of the room.

Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Face frames cover plywood edges. That being said lets first go over the basic tools for building a cabinet box. Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors.

Birch purebond plywood full sheets are best but 2 8 sheets would work as well. 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. We will not get into face frames or finishes in this post. In this video i discuss and demonstrate some simple methods for constructing cabinets.

Build the cabinets buy the doors.