Building A Cabinet Around A Fridge

Fridge cabinet secured in place.

Building a cabinet around a fridge.

This video is part of the ongoing boc hom. Let me know what you think in the coments below thank you for watching. Best online cabinets shows you how to make installing wall cabinets over the refrigerator easier and look polished. Meaning i coudn t get the cabinets above the fridge down without hurting the ones next to it so i had to scratch that idea.

And at the moment our floating fridge was looking pretty much the exact opposite. Building cabinetry around the refrigerator requires no demolition making it a relatively easy and inexpensive option. 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. The fun part is putting the rest together.

Not a fun job but it gave us more room to build our custom refrigerator cabinet. Surround the refrigerator with cabinets and or matching panels to cover the top and sides. Building the cabinet frame is simple. I now have a convenient out of the way home for my cookbooks.

Here are some progress shots. Choose a finish or a trim kit for the refrigerator that matches the cabinetry to help it blend in. 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. The deepest cabinet is around the refrigerator with display cabinets above.

For the side panels use a 5 4 inch stock. 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. Then attach 1 4 inch plywood to the back of the upper cabinet. Building the fridge cabinet once we figured out all the logistics in this small space the build was pretty straight forward.

Kitchen cabinets around refrigerator are great to hide an ugly fridge or to gain more storage space. The basic pieces are an mdf wood panel for the side and a box for the cabinet also made with mdf. Check out this refrigerator cabinet that i built. M a t e r i a l s u s e d.

Step 3 build the cabinet frame. 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. We learned with our first kitchen that building in your fridge is a huge help in making a kitchen look fancy schmancy. Once your refrigerator is in place you can start building the cabinet around it.