Making A Pantry Out Of Wall Cabinets

As it turns out a lot of people out there interested in hearing more about the barker cabinet experience.

Making a pantry out of wall cabinets.

There are several different approaches to creating the perfect pantry design to fit your needs. 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. Colonial pantries were often unheated shed like lean tos. By creating a false wall you are gaining an extra room for storage.

To hold the upper cabinet in place while you screw it to the wall make two 18 tall temporary supports from scrap. Pantry shelves can be added to a wall near prep space or can even fit between studs. 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. Place them on 1 2 spacers and rest the upper cabinet on the supports below.

Start by drilling pocket holes in the back and shelf pieces. If you aren t getting a lot of use out of a coat or broom closet picture it as a pantry. 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. The long edge with the cleanest cut should be the one without the pocket holes.

All of the cabinets are assembled using pocket holes made with a kreg jig. This works well if you have a larger kitchen area. 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. First build the two outer cabinets.

After you screw the cabinet in place slide out the 1 2 spacers to allow enough room for the temporary supports to tilt out from under the. Hidden pantry cabinet for a butler s pantry. 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. How to build a pantry cabinet prepare the cut pieces.

With the plywood ripped and cut to length it s time to build a pantry. I used the kreg r3 along both long edges of the back piece and on three sides of the shelves. My opinion in a nutshell you better be a damn good diyer if you are going to use barker cabinets. You should decide if your pantry will be a double door cabinet space a classic pullout or a recessed cabinet built into the wall.

Choose the space you want for your pantry and measure it to know exactly how much room you ll have so it ll be easier for you to decide on the type of pantry to plan for and the kinds of accessories you can add to it. To build a cabinet start by cutting panels for the bottom and sides out of mdf plywood or another type of laminate.