How To Make a Giant Built-In Cabinet || Built-In Cabinet Tutorial

Summary by Krater

The creator builds four modular built-in cabinets with shaker-style doors and drawers, demonstrating each step from cutting the plywood to installing the drawers and face frames.

From the video

Answers: How do you build custom built-in cabinets with drawers and shaker-style doors?

• Building built-in cabinets
• Cutting plywood with table saw and chop saw
• Dado groove joinery for cabinet assembly
• Pocket hole screw construction
• Assembling cabinet face frames
• Installing Blum undermount drawer slides
• Building shaker-style cabinet doors and drawers

What it concludes

• Building four separate cabinet boxes is much easier to install than one giant piece.
• Making two passes with a dado stack allows for precise fine-tuning of groove width for a tight fit on panel pieces.
• Cutting end pieces first when making face frames ensures no end grain is visible on top and bottom.
• Leaving the face frame 1/8 inch short provides wiggle room during top-to-bottom installation.
• Using spacer blocks during face frame assembly ensures even spacing and a square build without needing a square or tape measure.
• Installing cabinet doors first makes it easier to measure and build drawers below to the exact same span.