Building A Shelf Inside A Cabinet

Cut 1 by 2 inch.

Building a shelf inside a cabinet.

Discover hidden storage space in your walls with these two built in shelf projects built in shelving ideas. This basic version of built in shelves perfect for recessed bathroom. Based on dimensions of the cabinet you ve measured cut your shelf from a piece of 1 inch lumber plywood or fiberboard. Use a power drill to make pilot holes followed by the screws.

Use a table saw to make this cut leaving enough extra on the outside edges of the board to make up for material that will be lost from planing the edges. Cut the 1 4 inch oak to 15 1 2 inches on a miter saw. Look inside your walls for extra storage space. Begin by building the sides of the shelf.

Run a bead of glue on the back and nail it to the front edge of. Plywood won t shrink and expand like regular solid wood making it ideal for not only the cabinet carcass itself but the shelving within. Measure from the inside bottom of the cabinet to the inside top of the cabinet. Divide that by the number of.

Plywood makes great shelves because it s very sturdy and stable. Measure the distance between the vertical boards of the cabinet opening where you wish to install the shelf and. With a pencil make marks for two screws at each corner. Position the side boards to form a square and use two clamps to hold the structure together.

How to put shelves in cabinets step 1. Using the measurement you obtained mark the height above the inside bottom of the cabinet in all four corners.