Making A Pantry Out Of Wall Cabinets

First build the two outer cabinets.

Making a pantry out of wall cabinets.

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. To build a cabinet start by cutting panels for the bottom and sides out of mdf plywood or another type of laminate. 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.

My opinion in a nutshell you better be a damn good diyer if you are going to use barker cabinets. There s no law against setting aside a spot in it for the dustpan too. Colonial pantries were often unheated shed like lean tos. As it turns out a lot of people out there interested in hearing more about the barker cabinet experience.

If you aren t getting a lot of use out of a coat or broom closet picture it as a pantry. The long edge with the cleanest cut should be the one without the pocket holes. 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. At first we planned on having a cabinet maker build a pantry cabinet to match our existing kitchen but when we had one come out he quoted us 3 000 for a pantry in this space.

There are several different approaches to creating the perfect pantry design to fit your needs. To hold the upper cabinet in place while you screw it to the wall make two 18 tall temporary supports from scrap. Hidden pantry cabinet for a butler s pantry. By creating a false wall you are gaining an extra room for storage.

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. 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. 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.

I used the kreg r3 along both long edges of the back piece and on three sides of the shelves. All of the cabinets are assembled using pocket holes made with a kreg jig. How to build a pantry cabinet prepare the cut pieces. Pantry shelves can be added to a wall near prep space or can even fit between studs.

With the plywood ripped and cut to length it s time to build a pantry. You should decide if your pantry will be a double door cabinet space a classic pullout or a recessed cabinet built into the wall.