Building A Cabinet Around A Fridge

We learned with our first kitchen that building in your fridge is a huge help in making a kitchen look fancy schmancy.

Building a cabinet around a fridge.

Check out this refrigerator cabinet that i built. 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. Best online cabinets shows you how to make installing wall cabinets over the refrigerator easier and look polished.

The small cabinets were covered and i put a shelf over the fridge instead. 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. Step 3 build the cabinet frame. We dressed up the top with crown moulding will share a post on this soon too and added doors from cabinet now.

Not a fun job but it gave us more room to build our custom refrigerator cabinet. Once your refrigerator is in place you can start building the cabinet around it. For the side panels use a 5 4 inch stock. The deepest cabinet is around the refrigerator with display cabinets above.

Choose a finish or a trim kit for the refrigerator that matches the cabinetry to help it blend in. Building the fridge cabinet once we figured out all the logistics in this small space the build was pretty straight forward. Building cabinetry around the refrigerator requires no demolition making it a relatively easy and inexpensive option. Surround the refrigerator with cabinets and or matching panels to cover the top and sides.

Here are some progress shots. This video is part of the ongoing boc hom. M a t e r i a l s u s e d. 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 floored around the cabinets as the floor is floating and finished out the base in quarter round moulding more details on that coming soon. 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. The fun part is putting the rest together. Let me know what you think in the coments below thank you for watching.

Then attach 1 4 inch plywood to the back of the upper cabinet. I now have a convenient out of the way home for my cookbooks. Fridge cabinet secured in place. Building the cabinet frame is simple.