How to Build Garage Cabinets | Building Out Sam's Workshop!

hey guys it's Cher from Woodshop Diaries and I am in Sam's Workshop so I'm at Sam from DIY huntress's workshop and we are going to take this empty space and add some function um also we only have three days to do it we're gonna build out that wall and this wall with some Workshop cabinets and a miter saw stand and we don't have a lot of time so let's just Dive Right In and get building so let's do it I'm so excited for this project because I got to partner with all of my favorites Not only was I collabing with Sam but this video was also sponsored by my friends at Craig tool if you've been around very long then you already know how much I love my Craig Jigs and guides especially when building cabinets so you'll be seeing several of them throughout the video but before we get ahead of ourselves let's start from the beginning in my video I'm going to be sharing how Sam and I built out this wall with some basic cabinets but when you're finished here if you head over to Sam's Channel she's going to be sharing how we built out this wall for her new miter saw station you're not going to want to miss out on anything Sam is sharing over there so if you're not already sub to her Channel you ought to be okay let's build for this side of the shop we're building two small cabinets to use as a workbench and two taller Pantry style cabinets for storage the first step to any kind of cabinet build is cutting down the plywood we tried to keep these Dimensions pretty simple so that we can make the best use of materials and make the fewest amounts of cuts I'm sharing building plans with cut diagrams in the plans linked below if you're interested in exact measurements I use the Craig grip cut and circular saw to rip the plywood sheets into 24 inch wide strips I literally told Sam that I wasn't coming to help unless she had a rip cut and an accu-cut because I would be lost trying to build anything without these from these strips I cut the cabinet sides and bottoms using a circular saw and Craig accucut after all the large plywood pieces were cut down I ripped the remaining piece of plywood to three inch wide strips to use as the top and back supports of the cabinets I trim these pieces to length on the miter saw now while I was cutting down the plywood sheets Sam was marking and cutting out the toe kicks on the front corner of each cabinet side now something unique about Sam's shop that may not apply to your own shop if you're looking at replicating this project is that her shop has this concrete curb along the wall to work around that she basically measured and notched out the back Corners using a jigsaw then just notched the front corner the same size for the toe kick but in most cases you'll only need to notch the front corner for the toe kick now don't get overwhelmed with all these pieces building cabinets is literally building boxes and it's really simple so for a visual here's all the pieces that we just cut down we have two tall sides for each pantry cabinet and just an FYI we cut these to 88 inches tall depending on your ceiling height you could make these a full eight foot if you wanted then we have two short sides for each Center cabinet all of these pieces had Corner notches as you can see then we have one piece for the bottom of each middle cabinet three pieces for the top middle and bottom of each pantry cabinet three three inch wide strips for each middle cabinet and two three inch wide strips for each pantry cabinet all the specific measurements can be found in the plans Linked In the description after all these pieces were cut we began drilling pocket holes I drilled pocket holes on the larger panels the bottoms middle and top pieces of the cabinets using my favorite jig the Kreg 720. Sam took on drilling pocket holes in the smaller strips on her favorite jig the Craig Foreman Teamwork Makes the Dream work and we knock these out pretty quickly unfortunately we rushed through the fun stuff just to make it to the not so fun stuff Edge banding and sanding thankfully with two people this goes twice as fast so while I ironed on the banding Sam took care of the sanding now just a side note we bought this Edge banding from the store and it was 7 8 inches wide the plywood we were using is just under three quarters of an inch wide so there was a lot to trim off the plywood is only it's slightly under three quarter of an inch thick and the edge Manning is 7 8 so what we did was we Edge banded the front and then Sam's going to use a utility knife to just trim this edge off and then we can sand it and it won't be such a long sanding process because we cut off the majority of the leftover Edge painting see so this is cut off instead of sanded off which makes sanding a lot less awful I was gonna say I was hoping hoping you were gonna say less awful because sanding is pretty awful typically I buy my Edge banding in bulk on Amazon and I get three quarter inch wide banding this cuts down a ton of time trimming and sanding off the excess however if you do need to trim it a utility knife it does work great we only Edge banded the front edges that will be exposed in the end project no need to Edge band anything on the back side once that was finished it was finally time to assemble the boxes and again Teamwork Makes the Dream work so a Sam assembled one box while I assembled the other using pocket hole screws through the holes that we drilled earlier to assemble these middle cabinet boxes we attached the bottom panel flush along the bottom edge of the toe kick notches then we attached one of the three inch strips at the top front and the other two at the back the top strips will be used to secure the countertop and the one along the back Edge will be used to secure the cabinet to the wall Sam wanted to leave the backs of these cabinets open so that she could access the outlets inside so obviously we didn't add a back panel here however if you wanted you can certainly nail or staple a back quarter inch plywood panel onto the back side if you do this kind of just helps square and sturdy up the cabinet a little to make shimming easier later so Sam had bought a six foot long butcher block top to go on these so we laid out the cabinets and the top to get a rough idea where these should go on the wall foreign the top once we had a good idea of where things were going but before securing the cabinets I did go ahead and drill oversized holes in the top supports that way we can use screws from the bottom to secure the Butcher Block and still allow for wood movement but we'll come back to this in a minute to install first we screw the right side cabinet to the studs we used some shims to make sure that the cabinet was Level side to side and front to back and to make sure that it was Square before attaching I didn't want to be the one to put a hole in Sam's brand new workshops fresh drywall so I let her drive the screws into the wall studs through the back supports on the cabinets once the first cabinet was in place we set the top on it so that the edge was flush along the right side Sam held it in place while I drove the screws through the oversized holes to secure it from the inside also just a note we used some washers on these screws so that they didn't go all the way through the holes but they did hold the pieces tight together now that the right side was done this made installing the left side a lot easier we shimmed up the left cabinet to meet the Butcher Block at the bottom and made sure that the left edge of the cabinet lined up with the left edge of the top then we screwed it in through the oversized holes that I drilled earlier we were both pretty excited when we stepped back and double checked our work oh that's like dead level yeah dead level it only took like 66 shims but once we made sure it was level we secured the left side to the studs and moved on to adding the other cabinets it's like we know what we're doing or something all right okay the taller Pantry style cabinets that will anchor each side are built similarly but slightly different since these won't have a separate countertop they are built with a solid bottom panel and a solid top panel and since they're so tall in order to keep the sides from Bowing in or out we also added a solid stationary shelf in the middle as well these cabinets will have adjustable shelves added later but this stationary shelf will just help hold the sides in place and sturdy it up a bit in order to secure these to the wall studs we added one three inch strip under the top panel and one under the middle panel once we had one cabinet assembled we awkwardly maneuvered it into place next to the middle cabinets it's really nice to have two sets of hands here we shimmed up this cabinet as well to make sure it was square and level then screwed it to the existing cabinet and into the wall studs through the supports in the back once one was in we repeated the same for the other side then we noticed a problem level and everything and then I asked Sam is your door going to be able to open because of the garage door rail here um and the answer is no no I took this level and I put it up here to see how much of this like this cabinet that we would need to cut off so I just like held it up here level and it looks like maybe about two inches and the thought of taking this down and cutting two inches off maybe you want to throw it in my mouth so we are not doing that I convinced Sam that taking a piece of plywood strip that's I don't know I think this is three inches wide and putting it on the front here at the top will be able to drop the door down about three inches so it'll be able to open but it won't take away from the design but we're just going to select this on here obviously cut to length and then the door will come up straight to the same plain as this and be able to open and you probably if I didn't point it out wouldn't even notice so that's what we're doing it'll be fine this is the beauty of custom carpentry exactly what if when we the door we cut that strip from the same piece of plywood it says continuous Green Oh yeah and then it looks like it's one perfect yeah done now that we had a plan together I began trimming down some more plywood to cut for the doors these will be full overlay doors so they should be cut a quarter inch smaller in height and width than the overall front of the cabinets for the tall cabinets I mentioned that we decided to add a trim piece at the top so the door could open without hitting the garage door rail so I cut a piece the size that I would need for a full door but then I just trimmed three inches off the top and made sure to label these correctly this will allow us to do a continuous green all the way up so the trim will match the door and it will help conceal the fact that it's not a solid door all the way up while I was finishing up the doors Sam was busy using the Kreg shelf pin jig to drill shelf pin holes in all of her cabinets so that she can install adjustable shelves to hold all her tools this jig basically allows you to drill evenly spaced holes so that you can insert shelf pins in to place your shelves on much like Edge banding this is a very monotonous task but it's one of those must do things after the doors were Edge banded I used a correct concealed hinge jig to drill cup holes for the concealed hinges I use the cardboard box as a work surface which was probably not the best idea [Music] that workbench collapsed but once the cup holes were drilled out I screwed the hinges in place now I have a complete tutorial that I'll link below for how to install concealed hinges using this jig we use hinges for full overlay doors on frameless cabinets since that's what we're installing here the small doors were easy because they just need two hinges one at the top and one at the bottom we could also use this Craig cabinet door jig to help hold it in position while I screwed the hinge to the cabinet I didn't realize until after the fact that my entire body was in the way on this door so here's a better look on the other door sometimes with these cameras there's just not a great place to put them to get the shot for their larger doors I Brad nailed the trim piece at the top then installed the door below it for these doors since they were so heavy I had to install four hinges and I just evenly spaced these out and made sure that they wouldn't interfere with the stationary Shelf this door was too heavy to use with the Craig cabinet door jig so I have a tip for help I'm installing big heavy doors you just put it on your foot and you just raise and lower your toes super easy you can also phone a friend but that's easier I added one screw in each hinge first then adjusted them as needed to properly close then I went back and installed the second screw in each hinge once I had my door pretty much adjusted where I wanted it to be I found it challenging to get the door aligned to the top trim piece so for the second cabinet I installed the door first then came back and added the trim piece after and of course I didn't get footage of installing the trim piece here but I just lined it up and nailed it in place building here in Sam's shop was seriously a blast and I was a lot more focused on just building and having a good time than I was filming so sorry about that the closer we got to the Finish Line the less attention I was paying to the camera also the time crunch didn't help either all that was left at this point was to stain the cabinets and add the finishing touches to make things easier we removed the doors from the hinges Sam picked out a black Gel Stain so we brushed it on wiped it off and then I reinstalled the doors reattached the countertop and added some simple black handles the very last detail was adding a toe kick now full disclosure normally I'll use three quarter inch plywood for the toe kick but we had these leftover quarter inch plywood strips so I used those instead either one works totally fine but I was just trying to use up what we already had I trimmed one piece to cover each section of cabinets stained them first then Brad nail them across the front all right friends it's been a whirlwind of three days here at Sam's Workshop I just wrapped up this project getting the handles and the doors back on after stain I'm still covered in stain I haven't even washed off yet but I needed to just take a quick video and get you some finished images of it because I've got to head out in the morning and get out of Sam's shop and out of Sam's hair now this is where I had to pack up and fly home so Sam picked up my slack after I left and applied a finished coat to the cabinets and the workbench top she's got all the details on what she used over in her video if you want to check it out she also cut and installed the shelves for me so huge shout out to Sam for picking up where I had to leave off also a huge shout out to Sam for inviting me to come build and trusting me with this project for her shop and also for treating me to some New York Bagels and pizza while I was there building and filming with Sam was such a fun experience that I very much hope to be able to do again soon we have gotten so much done in just three days here in the shop and I'm really excited for Sam I'm really excited for her new workspace and you can see a sneak peek of the project over here in the corner that Sam is sharing over on her channel is her miter saw station I'm sure she'll have tons of projects to come out of the shop so head over to her Channel give her a follow and check it out if you're not already I hope you guys enjoyed this collab in this video and until next time friends happy building thank you

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Length: 18min 7sec (1087 seconds)

Published: Sat May 13 2023