Building A Cabinet Around A Fridge

Surround the refrigerator with cabinets and or matching panels to cover the top and sides.

Building a cabinet around a fridge.

Then attach 1 4 inch plywood to the back of the upper cabinet. The basic pieces are an mdf wood panel for the side and a box for the cabinet also made with mdf. Building the fridge cabinet once we figured out all the logistics in this small space the build was pretty straight forward. The deepest cabinet is around the refrigerator with display cabinets above.

Fridge cabinet secured in place. I now have a convenient out of the way home for my cookbooks. This video is part of the ongoing boc hom. The small cabinets were covered and i put a shelf over the fridge instead.

M a t e r i a l s u s e d. Not a fun job but it gave us more room to build our custom refrigerator cabinet. The fun part is putting the rest together. Choose a finish or a trim kit for the refrigerator that matches the cabinetry to help it blend in.

For the side panels use a 5 4 inch stock. Building the cabinet frame is simple. Once your refrigerator is in place you can start building the cabinet around it. We learned with our first kitchen that building in your fridge is a huge help in making a kitchen look fancy schmancy.

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. And at the moment our floating fridge was looking pretty much the exact opposite. On the end is a tall open cabinet that creates an interesting visual display as one enters the kitchen. 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.

We dressed up the top with crown moulding will share a post on this soon too and added doors from cabinet now. Building cabinetry around the refrigerator requires no demolition making it a relatively easy and inexpensive option. Let me know what you think in the coments below thank you for watching. Best online cabinets shows you how to make installing wall cabinets over the refrigerator easier and look polished.

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. Check out this refrigerator cabinet that i built. Kitchen cabinets around refrigerator are great to hide an ugly fridge or to gain more storage space.