Building Garage Storage Cabinets With Doors

Measure and cut the cabinet door trim to size and drill 3 4 pocket holes in the ends of both vertical trim pieces.

Building garage storage cabinets with doors.

To frame out the cabinets secure 8 foot 2x4s perpendicular at 36 across and 60 across. Plug the cut end of a hollow core door by gluing in a block of wood. I show you how i built a large storage cabinet with doors for my garage. Free building plans for garage storage cabinets to organize all your tools household supplies automotive supplies outdoor toys garden tools.

With shelves in all that s left to do is brush on two coats of polyurethane load up your new storage space and say goodbye to that mess in your garage. Lockable double doors are fabricated with interior pegboards to hang an assortment of devices and instruments further expanding the organization options. They will have four doors except the one at left end it will have an upper sliding door because the garage door rail is in the way of door opening. This will give you two 3 feet wide cabinets on the ends and a 2 foot wide cabinet in the middle.

The cabinet are designed to be hang on the wall that will provide some space under for easy cleaning as well as keeping the storage away from concrete floor moisture. I needed to organize my garage so i build some large storage cabinet with doors. Attach them to the top and bottom pieces with 1 1 4 pocket hole screws and wood glue. And this garage cabinet system can easily adapt to your situation.

At 24 deep standard base cabinets allow you to bend over and reach in to retrieve anything at the back. Also the wider the door the more clearance you ll need in front of the cabinet. Shot some video while working on this project and while incomplete on many technical aspects it gives a pretty good general overview of how one can do this. Make cabinets as wide as you like but remember that the wider the doors the greater the tendency to rack and warp.

Standard wall cabinets measure 12 deep. This post is sponsored by kreg. Set the cabinet aside and begin building the cabinet doors. Do this for both doors.

Chisel out the cardboard webbing inside the door to make space for the block. You can build one cabinet or a dozen adjust the height or width to suit your space or combine closed cabinets and open shelves in different ways. Construct doors build the front of the frame in the same pattern as the back 8 feet wide and 8 feet tall.