Garage Cabinet Construction

Adding the mill made the garage very crowded, mostly due to a lack of organized storage space. One of the list members on one of the machinist lists stopped machining for a short time to build cabinets in his garage, but was never able to contact him to try to convince him to share his methods.

Finally called my old friend google for help, using "garage cabinets build" for a search string. Found quite a few videos, but found the four videos below on Youtube to be the most help.

Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
Video 4

Note that the top shelf is limited by the track for the garage door. The next shelf is only about 4" tall, and is reserved for storage of levels and long stock, such as bar stock. A lip will be added to the front of this shelf to keep round bar stock from rolling off.

The shelves aren't finished, as we had to curtail the project late on Sunday night due to noise limitations. The (as yet) unused materials had to be brought inside, due to rain in the forecast. Started painted the west wall of the garage with Kilz, as this wall will receive a bit of moisture from the mist coolant. It'll get painted behind the cabinets, and the open portion will receive a second coat.

Also will probably add a second bay to the garage. Will make it a lot easier to have more space to work on the motorcycle.



Garage Cabinet 1

Garage Cabinet 3

Garage Cabinet 4

Garage Cabinet 2

Another couple of days, a bit more work done. Also spent today tilling the gargen prior to planting tulips, which will happen the next few days.


Garage Cabinet 13

Garage Cabinet 14

Garage Cabinet 15

Garage Cabinet 16

The top shelf will be used to store Christmas decorations. The small shelf below is slated to hold long skinny items, such as levels and yet-to-be-used bar stock.

Garage Cabinet 21

Garage Cabinet 22

Garage Cabinet 23

Garage Cabinet 24

Garage Cabinet 25

Garage Cabinet 26

This show the nearly finished cabinet. Another coat of paint, and hopefully some doors in the future will make a nice, out of sight, storage area.