OK, I have to admit that for me building cabinets is fun. Working with large sheets of plywood makes the construction go quickly, and before you know it, you have completed a pretty sweet looking piece of work.
The bed I am finishing up was my first foray into European style frameless cabinetry. Unlike North American face frame cabinets, these projects go together quickly, don’t get involved in time-consuming face frame construction and are as strong and as nice to look at as their face framed cousins.
So, how do you build them? Well, today’s plan from some other guy named Tom (honestly, he didn’t list his last name!) shows how to build the frameless uppers. He also has a great tutorial on building frameless base cabinets as well.
If you are interested in learning about this cabinet construction method, this is a pretty sweet place to start.
I’ve been designing cabinets for my shop as of late and those very same tutorials have been my guide as I delve into my first cabinet making project. Once I can find the funds to purchase the plywood I’m going to get started, absolutely need to do this to organize my shop and reclaim my floor space. I designed most of my cabinets to perfectly fit Festool Systainers in an effort to get them out of the way too.
The fun part of frameless construction is that they go together very fast. Without the need to create face frames, you move a whole lot more quickly. But, you have to carefully watch your margins on your drawer and door fronts…