How To Build Bathroom Cabinet
Cut the frames from the 1x6 for the cabinet doors.
How to build bathroom cabinet. Make sure you are securing the cabinet to wall studs to prevent it from failing or tearing a hole in your wall. Drill only deep enough for the pins. This set of plans covers much of the basics of cabinet building. For perfectly placed holes make a simple drilling jig from a scrap of 1 4 inch perforated hardboard.
Once the cabinet is in the bathroom check to ensure the doors have enough clearance to open and close without any obstruction. A cabinet face frame is the front frame of a cabinet. Next cut 4 facing panels for the front of the cabinet. To start i cut my full sheets of plywood into more manageable sizes.
Clamp a block to the fence so you can hold the molding firmly against it. Build the box first start by cutting the 1 4 cabinet sides a in figure a in project pdfs below and top center and bottom b to length. Tape the seams and apply joint compound. Install drywall where tile was removed.
After the face frames are complete i attached the side panels. Prepare the case panels. Carefully align the jig with the edges of the cabinet side or divider before firmly clamping it in place and drilling the holes. To build a cabinet start by cutting panels for the bottom and sides out of mdf plywood or another type of laminate.
Measure the top of the cabinet including the doors and cut the plywood crown and base frames to that size. While bathroom vanity cabinets can be relatively expensive to buy they re not at all difficult to build. Screw clearance holes through the sides at these marks and at the top and bottom. If removing a bathtub shower turn off the main valve water.
Then use a square to mark the location of the center divider on the sides photo above. Sketch a design for the cabinet and make a cut list from the sketch. Set your miter saw to 45 degrees and cut the crown molding with it upside down and leaning against the fence photo above. Now that the cabinet has been built install it in the measured area of your bathroom.
In this set of free woodworking plans follow step by step through the process of building a 36 wide 24 deep and 32 tall bathroom vanity cabinet.