How To Make Garage Cabinets

Don t be afraid to take the time to measure everything twice just to be on the safe side.

How to make garage cabinets. Follow the cabinet plans and make sure that all of your measurements are correct. Measure the height of the french cleat on the cabinet from the bottom shelf add the distance of how much the cabinets should be off the floor that s the final height of the lower cleat strip on the wall. Even being out a 1 4 an inch can ruin the cabinets.

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. I show you how i built a large storage cabinet with doors for my garage. Choose plan this determines the quantity of materials you will need.

We have 6 cabinet units that are 12 inches deep 30 inches tall and 3. The materials for this floor to ceiling wall mounted garage cabinets system cost about 37 per linear foot of wall space. Cut all the parts by following the plywood cutting diagrams in the plan.

Buy the proper materials. Attach the backboard to the bottom piece with 1 1 4 pocket hole screws and wood glue. Plywood or particleboard but i chose melamine because it didn t require a finish.

Use level to mark and mount the strip on the wall at the wall stud with two of 2 1 2 cabinet mounting screws at each location. Assemble the parts into a complete cabinet using pocket hole joinery. And with 3 4 thick plywood or sheet stock you can make garage storage cabinets in 3 simple steps.

Next up frame in each individual locker area. I needed to organize my garage so i build some large storage cabinet with doors. We re going to transform an open wall in the garage to a wall full of storage cabinets.