Building A Cabinet Around A Fridge

Kitchen cabinets around refrigerator are great to hide an ugly fridge or to gain more storage space.

Building a cabinet around a fridge.

Then attach 1 4 inch plywood to the back of the upper cabinet. Surround the refrigerator with cabinets and or matching panels to cover the top and sides. Start by taking measurements of counter depth refrigerator taking notes of the standard depth of a fridge or your custom built fridge and taking that into notice start looking into refrigerator matching cabinet s do not forget the space above the refrigerator as it can be useful to put. I now have a convenient out of the way home for my cookbooks.

Building the cabinet frame is simple. Once your refrigerator is in place you can start building the cabinet around it. Here are some progress shots. That s where an also less than schmancy 19 cabinet from the habitat for humanity restore mentioned yesterday came in handy it s 12 tall and 36 wide the exact width of our fridge.

The basic pieces are an mdf wood panel for the side and a box for the cabinet also made with mdf. We learned with our first kitchen that building in your fridge is a huge help in making a kitchen look fancy schmancy. On the end is a tall open cabinet that creates an interesting visual display as one enters the kitchen. M a t e r i a l s u s e d.

Check out this refrigerator cabinet that i built. This video is part of the ongoing boc hom. Let me know what you think in the coments below thank you for watching. We floored around the cabinets as the floor is floating and finished out the base in quarter round moulding more details on that coming soon.

We dressed up the top with crown moulding will share a post on this soon too and added doors from cabinet now. For the side panels use a 5 4 inch stock. Fridge cabinet secured in place. The deepest cabinet is around the refrigerator with display cabinets above.

Not a fun job but it gave us more room to build our custom refrigerator cabinet. And at the moment our floating fridge was looking pretty much the exact opposite. Building the fridge cabinet once we figured out all the logistics in this small space the build was pretty straight forward. Note that this cabinet is actually pulled back a few inches from the refrigerator depth so it continues the stepped look and also makes that corner a little less.

Choose a finish or a trim kit for the refrigerator that matches the cabinetry to help it blend in. The fun part is putting the rest together. Step 3 build the cabinet frame. Best online cabinets shows you how to make installing wall cabinets over the refrigerator easier and look polished.