Pallet for Home: Built In Cabinets and Shelving in Progress

Built In Cabinets and Shelving in Progress

Friday, November 30, 2012

Our family room has a lot of unused space for us at the moment. We have been in our home for four years, and this wall has pretty much sat there. We framed some sports moments and left it like that. With the the exception of painting it in Valspar's Leather Satchel everything remained the same.

Then one day in September Rob build this and said I'm going to build some built ins and shelving. I was excited that he was going to do something with this unused space and give us toy storage which we badly need with a princess loving almost three year old.

Rob constructed the cabinets using the Kreg system, and then bought the doors from Second Chance a restore in Baltimore City for around one hundred dollars for all seven doors we needed.

We purchased premade counters from Lowe's and stained them. Here is the other side of the built ins.

We had an electrician come out and move our outlets up and add an outlet for our television.

Rob then began construction on the shelving above the cabinets. Our foundation sits out a bit from the wall about half way up, and so he used that as the starting point for the first shelf.

Rob then attached some trim in front of the shelving to make them appear thicker and give them a finished look.

In between the cabinets Rob used wood paneling to make a wall to attach the T.V. He used a 2 by 10 behind it to attach the TV mounting piece to later on. He then gave it a fresh coat of white paint.

Here we are so far with the trim left to do and of course starting to fill up those shelves. Everything is haphazard for now. But, we (as in Rob) hopes to finish it up by tomorrow. Then in a few weeks we are going to add a built in bench underneath the TV.