Building Cabinet Boxes

Build the cabinets buy the doors.

Building cabinet boxes.

1 2 or 3 4 plywood. In this video i discuss and demonstrate some simple methods for constructing cabinets. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.

It sometimes requires powerful and expensive wood shaping equipment. Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors. We will not get into face frames or finishes in this post. Building kitchen cabinet doors is doable but can be tricky.

Just an fyi this article will show how to build the boxes frameless. What you will need to build your own diy kitchen cabinets. Even without a major renovation adding new cabinets can change the overall feel of the room. Hickory 2 4 purebond plywood panels.

The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. To build a cabinet start by cutting panels for the bottom and sides out of mdf plywood or another type of laminate. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. And if you have a bunch to build you ll need a lot of clamps and even more space.

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. Birch purebond plywood full sheets are best but 2 8 sheets would work as well. Birch purebond plywood full sheets are best but 2 8 2 4 or 4 4 sheets would work as well. Face frames cover plywood edges.

That being said lets first go over the basic tools for building a cabinet box.