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Then, I assembled the cabinets with wood glue and 1 ¼″ pocket hole screws. After all the drawers were together, I installed them into the two other filing cabinet carcasses. But, before attaching anything, I needed to cut dadoes to insert the file folder rails.
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I ripped down some ¾″ plywood strips to use for the drawer boxes to 10 ½″ wide, trimmed them down to size , and cut a dado ½″ from the bottom to install the ¼” plywood drawer bottom. You can get more details in my drawer building guide here. I basically used ¼” plywood as the rails for the file folders like seen below.
Because these cabinets will be going side by side in my dad’s office, I cut a single top piece from ¾” plywood to stretch across the entire set. However, if you are just building one cabinet or two, you can cut the top to fit your own needs. I installed two pair of ball bearing drawer slides into two of the cabinets with wood screws. I’ve got a super detailed drawer building guide here if you’d like more info on exactly how I build drawers and install slides. For this DIY filing cabinet desk project I tried out the new Ryobi ONE+ HP 18V Brushless Compact Series Drill and Driver to see how they performed. These are not the older Ryobi drill and driver you may be used to seeing.
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Then, I cut and installed the ¾″ plywood drawer fronts using 1 ¼” wood screws from the inside of the drawer boxes, leaving ⅛″ space around all sides. This project is basically made of three identical plywood cabinet boxes. One has shelves and the other two have drawers. So the first thing I did was build these three cabinet boxes identical in size.
That way, when they’re weighted down, they shouldn’t sag causing misalignment. I installed the bottom slides all the way at the bottom of the cabinet and the top slides, 12 ½″ up from the bottom. This gives plenty of room above each drawer for the file folder tabs. Now back to the build 🙂 If you want to make one of your DIY cabinets from step 1 into a shelf, it’s pretty simple.
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Space, you can just put three side by side, or 8ft, you can use four, etc. This project is basically just building identical sized cabinet boxes, deciding how many you want and what you want to put inside. You could use them as garage cabinets, a desk, a console, or make them taller and use them as DIY kitchen cabinets as well. While the site is in maintenance mode some features won't be available. This includes adding items to the cart, viewing your order history, placing orders, customizing items, checking delivery times and delivery status.
But, once you get them where they are going, you can simply screw the cabinets together , center the top in place and secure through the top supports of the cabinets with 1 ¼″ screws. I edge banded the top to cover the plywood edges–that’s an optional step. For the shelf cabinet, I used a shelf pin jig to drill holes along both sides to give me the option of an adjustable shelf. You can check out all the details on the Ryobi ONE+ HP 18V Compact Drill and Driver Kit (comes with drill, driver, 2 batteries and a charger!) on the Home Depot website here.
DIY Cabinets and Modular Desk
If you make these payments by the due date each month, you should pay off this purchase within the promo period, if it is the only balance you are paying off. If you have other balances on your account, this payment will be added to any other minimum monthly payments. As a side note, I cut two drawers so the files will go side to side and two so they’ll go front to back. I wasn’t sure which my parents wanted, so I mixed and matched. Either way works fine…you can cut them whichever direction you prefer. I’m having a really hard time describing this project as one specific thing because it’s actually just a simple DIY cabinets tutorial.
Keep an eye out for the latest scoop on great style and savings. I didn’t attach everything together yet because I will be loading these up to take to my dad’s shop. I just needed some quick pics to share 🙂 haha.
Once all the drawer pieces were cut down, I drilled pocket holes into the ends of the front and back pieces for assembly like shown above. Then, I just used shelf pins to install a ¾″ plywood shelf. But I simply cut my shelf 18″ deep x 22 ¼″ wide. Create a customized home office that is as unique as you are! You can swap in your favorite desk, add cabinets, find storage solutions, seating and other office furnishings to make your ideal work space. As a note, since file folders can get heavy, I made sure to install the slides with several screws in holes that won’t allow for vertical movement.
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