Easy DIY Storage Cabinet Build | How To Build A Wood Storage Cabinet

Hey so built this hutch and if you would like to know how you could build a hutch well you can watch this video and don't forget to click Subscribe right down there and hit that little bell - that'll notify you when I put on your videos so enjoy the video [Music] lordy Lordy lordy we have got a lot to cover in this video so I'm gonna try and condense it down to be as quick and simple as possible so the first thing you're gonna want to do is mill up a bunch of stock wood for this build we're doing the entire cabinet out of solid white oak with just a little bit of white oak ply so we start by milling down a bunch of eight quarter white oak and then cutting it into uniform strips from which we can build the carcass of our hutch with all of the strip's milled down to the proper size for the carcass we start cutting them to the right length now we're gonna start by building the outer two walls of our cabinet each wall is gonna look something like what you're seeing on your screen right now the only difference is instead of a giant hole in the middle you're gonna fill that hole with a piece of quarter-inch plywood first we mark the length of our legs onto the stock pieces of wood next we're gonna have to cut a quarter inch groove on the interior of each of our side panel pieces that will catch our floating quarter inch white oak panel for this we're just using a quarter inch dado stack on the table saw we start with our top and bottom piece first because we can run those all the way through now with our side pieces are gonna have to do a combination of drop cuts and stop cuts on the table saw so the first thing I like to do is take two pieces of blue tape and Mark where my table saw blade starts and also where my table saw blade stops in order to do all four side pieces without having to change our fence two of the pieces will need to be drop cuts while two of the pieces we'll stop cuts you'll see what I mean here in just a second as I run them through now a drop cut is exactly what it sounds like you are dropping the piece onto the spinning blaze so that you can start the cut back from the end of the piece this allows us to put our quarter-inch groove on the side piece without cutting into the exposed leg that way we can hide that groove inside the framing and you will never know it's there so due to the pieces with the drop cut technique if you've never done this before just go very slow and make sure the piece is secure against the fence then for the other two pieces you're going to do the opposite and what I like to call a stop cut so you're gonna run the piece all the way through until it is two inches away from where the blade starts then you're gonna turn the table saw off let the blade stop spinning and then lift the piece off this is going to create the exact same cut as the drop cut but reversed for the opposite side do this to all your pieces and you should now have a quarter of an inch channel on the interior of both of your side pieces then finally we have to take some floppy floppy quarter-inch white oak plywood run it through the table saw and cut it down to the right size to make up our interior loading panels you could use solid stock for this but whenever I'm doing floating panels I like to use plywood because you know wood movement and all that junk next we're gonna drop the panel into our cut pieces making sure everything fits nicely and then we will get ready to join it all together should look just like this well get ready to hate me to join this entire piece I will be using you guessed it the Festool Domino joiner now before you get all bent out of shape I feel like I say this in every single one of my youtube videos involving the domino jointer if you don't have one don't fret use a doweling jig it's just a $60 version of the Domino jointer that you can do by hand I'll even put a link to a doweling jig down in the video description so just get off my back but for this video I use the Domino jointer to mortise out all my holes for my corresponding dominoes and then I hook three of my side pieces together leaving one side open so that I can slip in my quarter inch panel now I'm inserting this panel without glue remember it is a floating panel that just allows the hardwood around it to move without putting any extra strain on that fly wood panel then I lock it in place with that fourth and final piece next I'm just gonna clamp the whole thing together and do the exact same thing to my identical piece for the opposite side when it's all said and done you should have two pieces that look exactly like this one you're staring at with our two side pieces and clamps I jump over and start working on the face frame portion of our cabinet as well as the back to support pieces that will make up the entirety of our cabinet box again I'm just hooking everything together with the Domino jointer quick and easy for this cabinet our face frames pretty simple it's just gonna have four cabinet doors three pieces in total not too bad but before we can hook it all together I needed to run the top piece on the front of my face frame and the top support piece on the back of the cabinet through the table saw putting in an eighth inch groove to hold the Z clip fasteners that we'll use to hold the top of the cabinet on with that groove cut it is time to glue up our face frame whenever I have face frames that aren't supported on either side I like to glue them up with these little 90-degree holder thingamabobs from woodpecker's tools no they're not paying me to say that I just really like them they're super handy and it just makes sure that everything is glued up nice and square now this is the portion of the video where I tell you that I forgot a few steps when I was cutting my side pieces putting a quarter-inch groove for my floating panel I completely forgot that we also need quarter inch grooves for the back panel so I had to add that quarter inch groove to my back support pieces as well as my two side pieces would have been a little easier to do that before they were glued up but it worked just the same so with everything cut and our face frame hooked together we can start putting the entire box together and marking it for our joinery again we're just tucking it all together with dominoes or dowse sorry whatever you may have you use that to hook your cabinet together cut to some stock footage of me using my domino jointer la dee da dee da looks pretty good but in the mortises yeah yeah yeah okay now I have to run a piece of quarter inch ply through the table saw so that I can cut the floating panel for the back of my cabinet so after running it through the table saw I just cut it to size using a track saw yep I've cut right into my outfeed table but it's old and I just don't care then with all of my pieces cut and my holes mortise for my dominoes I just slap the whole thing together with some glue dominoes and then I just get it all clamped up and voila you have the starts of a cabinet next I wanted to figure out the bottom so I grabbed some toilet paper oh wait not that kind of bottom to hold the bottom in place I cut a bunch of strips of stock white oak that we're gonna glue up on the bottom of the cabinet to create a recessed little channel for our bottom plate to sit down on so I take all my little strips and just glue them right on making sure that you leave enough room for your base plate to sit flush or just below the base of your cabinet then with all of our supporting strips glued on I flip the cabinet back over and you should have a nice recessed little shelf where you can rest your bottom not not your bottom the bottom plate of your cabinet you know what I mean anyways I cut down a piece of 3/4 inch apply sanding the edges slightly just so that it doesn't chip out when I push it in place then I add just a little bit of glue onto that recessed shelf and I pop it in there next I use a 23 gauge pin nailer just to hold the entire thing in place while the glue dries using 23 gauge pins so you're not going to see these when it's all said and done and there you go you've got a bottom next we slide in our dividing piece down the center to separate left cabinet from right cabinet now I've seen a lot of people try and build the center divider in a cabinet into their framing this involves adding some dado grooves into that front divider piece and I tell you what it's just more headache than it's worth you're not gonna see any of that and I'm gonna show you how to lock that center divider in place without any of that fuss so first you start by just getting your divider in there and making sure is nice and square next I'm just gonna send some 23 gauge pins through the back panel again this is not supportive at all it's just to hold it in place so it's not moving around then out of stock white oak I just make this little cap piece to put on the top and I secure it in place with a few pocket holes yes I know ugly pocket holes but it's tucked up underneath the top of the cabinet so guess what you're not actually going to see them then I pre drill a few holes through my top plate into my plywood and I just sink some cabinet screws through that top plate right into my pea supply then I flip the whole cabinet over and well I just sent some screws right up through the bottom and just like that your center divider is locked very securely now it's not hooked to the front face frame but it's 3/4 inch ply so it really doesn't have any give with this small piece next I cut some little strips and I glue and tack them onto that 3/4 piece this is gonna be a simple rest for my internal shelf and I add another piece to the outside this one just held in place with a few yes ugly pocket holes but I position the pocket holes facing up so that they also will be completely hidden by the shelf itself ok that run shelf itself anyways I cut down my shelves and I do have to add just a little notch in each corner not each corner of each individual shelf but one corner of each shelf so that it can sit in there just like that and then I cover up the fact that it's plywood by adding a simple piece of quarter-inch stock onto the front of and that our shelves are done time to build our time I decided to forego showing you the boring milling process on this one but I pre milled up some pieces of five quarter white oak and I well rub some glue on them and clamp them together how about that I didn't use any biscuits or dominoes either so just sue me why don't you then once it's all dry I take it out of clamps I flopped it on top of my cabinet and I use the track saw to cut it to the right size then I use a little round over bit with the router just to give it a nice soft top edge man now it's time to mill all the lumber for our cabinet doors I really didn't want a mill so I thought maybe if I played a sweet melody on the tin whistle it would just magically turn into perfectly milled pieces holy cow it actually worked so for this cabinet we are doing four shaker-style cabinets with glass recessed into the back of each door sweet store is going to be made up of approximately five pieces like the ones you see in front of you four outer pieces with that middle kind of decorative brace now because we are recessing the glass into the back you have to make that little decorative brace 1/8 inch skinnier than your outer pieces that way once we router out the groove for the glass to sit inside the back of the door it'll sit flush against that internal brace now what you're gonna want to do is first mark out where that brace is going to land on your outer rails of your cabinet door and then you're gonna want a router out that groove right in the middle first before you glue your doors up or else if you try and do it afterwards your router bits gonna run right smack-dab into that middle support and you're gonna be cursing and have a tough time getting that groove where you want it to make this groove I'm just using a half inch rabbet bit with a bottom mounted bearing on the router set to a depth of just over eighth of an inch as you can see you just want to do just a little pass to clear that middle brace you don't need to do the whole thing quite yet we can do that once it's all glued up just to make sure we don't go too far but you can see our middle support is just the same height as our routed out groove then with our grooves routed out where our internal brace is going to be I again pull out the Domino Joyner or doweling jig whichever you prefer and I hook all the doors together just you know like you should two pieces on each end support in the middle and voila you clamp them all up and let them dry here's a good example of why you got to do that small routed groove first you can see the bit runs smack into that middle brace but with our doors all glued together now you can finish off the rest of the groove with your around the glass that we'll be inserting in these cabinet doors is rectangular and obviously the router bit will leave a rounded corner so you'll have to go back with a chisel and just square off each corner but then your glass should fit very nicely in your cabinet door I just ordered this glass from a local glass shop any glass shop should cut glass accustomed to size for any door you will want to make next time mark out where are my european-style hinges are going to be drilled in the door and I take the door over to the drill press and I drill out a hole in the appropriate location to catch my hinges see look the hinges fit right there originally I designed this cabinet to have over mount doors but there was a slight change of plan on the clients part and they wanted inset doors so to accommodate the inset hinges I did have to add a few little blocks inside the cabinet to catch the hinge while those dry I decided to jump over and sand my top then I brought my doors over now lots of people will use playing cards or spacers which would work totally fine but I've come to enjoy just using a few clamps to clamp my doors right on a face frame itself and then I can adjust them up or down to get the perfect spacing and then they're all locked in place and I can just screw my hinges into the sides of the cabinets which you can see me doing right now but as you can see when you close the doors they go in a little too far so you can either put a magnetic latch to catch them or in this case I decided to keep it very simple and I just glued a little oak stop block on the top of the cabinet frame to act as a stop and keep my cabinet doors at the perfect placing placement but anyways you can see it works very nicely who gotta love that slow close action [Music] now that our cabinet is completely assembled it is time to disassemble it I know weird but it's kind of what you do when you build cabinets you get everything together make sure that it fits right and then well you rip it all apart and you finish it which is what we're gonna do now first of course we sand the entire thing thoroughly for this cabinet the client wanted a black exterior and a clear coated interior for this I'm using a product from rubio monocoat they're pre color easy intense black now this is a base color that dyes the entire piece this is very dark black and then you go over the base color with the corresponding oil in this case I went over the entire thing with the rubio monocoat black oil plus to see that gives it a nice Sheen and it also adds a little more color to ensure the piece is well very very black as you can see right here [Music] then with all my black and oil on the exterior as well as the doors I finished the interior with rubio monocoat just pure as well as the interior shelves oh and then I hook on the top with those Zi clip fasteners like I was mentioning earlier these are handy dandy and we cut our grooves so we're ready to go next we insert the glass into our doors I just secure it in place with these little cabinet glass holder doohickeys that I picked up from Rockler comm they work pretty good and what do you know they're pretty close to the right color for this piece then I just clipped my doors back in place and well at this point I'm pretty much finito that's finished in Spanish and just like that we have a very nice-looking storage hutch this is destined for a bathroom but this same design could be used for a living room entryway or even a outside patio probably wouldn't last very long but you do it [Music] you

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Length: 21min 9sec (1269 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 09 2020