Making Garage Storage Cabinets

These shelves are heavy duty and ready to hold any type of garage stuff so they need to be sturdy.

Making garage storage cabinets.

Learning how to build garage cabinets is easy to understand with simple plans frameless cabinet construction and pocket hole joinery. Free building plans for garage storage cabinets to organize all your tools household supplies automotive supplies outdoor toys garden tools. Choose plan this determines the quantity of materials you will need. We are so grateful for our friends at kreg and their help to create this content and how to for you.

And with 3 4 thick plywood or sheet stock you can make garage storage cabinets in 3 simple steps. Diy oversized garage storage cabinets. Experiment with different cabinet widths and spacing until you find a layout that works well. The process of making cabinet carcass is similar to the cabinet in the walk in closet.

Build base begin building the base of the cabinets on the ground by laying out two 8 foot 2x4 boards on the floor parallel to the wall. 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. Organizing a garage isn t a one size fits all project so we ve compiled 51 of our best garage storage ideas. Next cut four 32 inch 2x4 boards and place them perpendicular between the 8 foot pieces on each end and two in the middle.

Attach them to the top and bottom pieces with 1 1 4 pocket hole screws and wood glue. Next up frame in each individual locker area. Do this for both doors. Diy garage storage cabinets first up frame up the floor and line the area with plywood.

Plan the ultimate garage cabinets system to suit your stuff. The plywood strips using for the cleats will be 4 wide both upper and lower part so the notch is going to be 8 1 2 wide to give them a little room for installation. This post is sponsored by kreg. Measure and cut the cabinet door trim to size and drill 3 4 pocket holes in the ends of both vertical trim pieces.

Roughly block out the cabinet locations on the wall using masking tape. Chisel out the cardboard webbing inside the door to make space for the block. First lay out the notches on the back of the cabinets for french cleat mounting.