So, I've been working off and on most of this year to finally organize my garage/shop. I haven't had a lot of experience building furniture grade projects, and this was my very first swing at face frame cabinets. Since they're for my garage, I constructed them primarily of 1/2" flooring grade plywood (who cares about surface finish in a garage?). Lots of work with my dado blade to build the carcasses. Face frames and door rails/stiles are all poplar. The door panels are 1/4" ply. Face frames are all butt jointed with pocket holes and the face frames are secured to the cabinet carcasses with pocket holes as well. They got painted with the odd blue color because it was available in the "oops" paint selection at my local BORG, and it looked much more gray in the store (can't argue with getting a $30 gallon of paint for $8).
Had a lot of frustration hanging them because it turns out all the interior walls of my garage are steel stud construction, with the stud spacing varying all over the board (anywhere from 8" on center to 24" on center). Anchored them the best I could with #10 self tapping sheet metal screws and the occasional toggle bolts.
Still have more organization to do (obviously) and I'm planning some peg board sliding panels below the shorter wall cabinets in the four cabinet cluster.
Overall, it was a pretty fun project. Glad I finally got around to organizing the garage. Ought to make future projects easier...joys of sharing space in a garage between cars and tools.
Had a lot of frustration hanging them because it turns out all the interior walls of my garage are steel stud construction, with the stud spacing varying all over the board (anywhere from 8" on center to 24" on center). Anchored them the best I could with #10 self tapping sheet metal screws and the occasional toggle bolts.
Still have more organization to do (obviously) and I'm planning some peg board sliding panels below the shorter wall cabinets in the four cabinet cluster.
Overall, it was a pretty fun project. Glad I finally got around to organizing the garage. Ought to make future projects easier...joys of sharing space in a garage between cars and tools.
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