Friday, December 01, 2006

Building Laundry Room Cabinets

Last weekend I started making the cabinets for the laundry room. Since I no longer have a workshop (that used to be where the laundry room is now!), I had to do the major cutting outside.

I am building two base cabinets. The sides, bottom, and various frame parts are cut from a single 4' x 8' sheet of hardwood veneer 3/4" plywood.

First I cut off a two foot section from one end, which became the bottom shelf of the larger cabinet:
cutBottomShelfb
Then I ripped the remainder of the large sheet in half length-wise, which made it easier to work with:
cutPanelLongb
Cut one side piece to size:
cutPanel1
The back of each cabinet is 1/4" luan:
cutBackPanelb
The toe-kick notch is cut out with the circular saw, but the cuts are finished with a back saw:
toeKickNotchb
Here are the finished carcasses:
BaseCabinet1b
Next I will make the face frames....

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