Making A Pantry Out Of Wall Cabinets

How to build a pantry cabinet prepare the cut pieces.

Making a pantry out of wall cabinets.

If you aren t getting a lot of use out of a coat or broom closet picture it as a pantry. To hold the upper cabinet in place while you screw it to the wall make two 18 tall temporary supports from scrap. With the plywood ripped and cut to length it s time to build a pantry. By creating a false wall you are gaining an extra room for storage.

Pantry shelves can be added to a wall near prep space or can even fit between studs. This works well if you have a larger kitchen area. Create your wall a few feet in front of an existing wall using two cabinets to form part of your new wall making it as large as you want or need. It s a nice tall cabinet but it s deep and narrow which meant i was constantly losing things in the back and pulling everything out of the cabinets to find things.

Choose the space you want for your pantry and measure it to know exactly how much room you ll have so it ll be easier for you to decide on the type of pantry to plan for and the kinds of accessories you can add to it. You should decide if your pantry will be a double door cabinet space a classic pullout or a recessed cabinet built into the wall. If you re not familiar with how these work take a minute to check out my walk through of how to use a kreg jig jr. Start by drilling pocket holes in the back and shelf pieces.

Then cut 4 pieces of 1 by 6 lumber to the same width as the bottom panel for the front back and top brace panels. You may want your pantry to be a separate room or you may want it to be a walk in where you can add doors to make it look like it is a built in cabinet to create uniformity in your kitchen or you can simply add a curtain to separate the space. As it turns out a lot of people out there interested in hearing more about the barker cabinet experience. In an earlier post i gave you all the details about how i designed my pantry wall and how i ordered the 12 cabinets needed from barker cabinets.

The long edge with the cleanest cut should be the one without the pocket holes. All of the cabinets are assembled using pocket holes made with a kreg jig. There s no law against setting aside a spot in it for the dustpan too. Colonial pantries were often unheated shed like lean tos.

After you screw the cabinet in place slide out the 1 2 spacers to allow enough room for the temporary supports to tilt out from under the. Place them on 1 2 spacers and rest the upper cabinet on the supports below. To build a cabinet start by cutting panels for the bottom and sides out of mdf plywood or another type of laminate. There are several different approaches to creating the perfect pantry design to fit your needs.

I used the kreg r3 along both long edges of the back piece and on three sides of the shelves. My opinion in a nutshell you better be a damn good diyer if you are going to use barker cabinets.