Shara McCuiston

Using wood glue and pocket hole screws, I screwed the sides of the cabinet into the bottom piece of the cabinet like shown making sure the pocket holes were on the inside. I assembled the frame using wood glue and pocket hole screws, and just attached the square dowel in place with wood glue (it was too small for a pocket hole). I laid it on the ground with the front side facing down, applied wood glue along the BACK sides of the cabinets and set them in place like shown and attached using pocket hole screws through the holes in the back sides of the panels. So for the INSIDES of both cabinets, where the face frame wasn’t flush with the inside of the cabinet, I attached some scrap plywood pieces like shown to mount the drawer slides on.

This post isn’t sponsored by PureBond, but people always ask what I use, and that’s what I always say 🙂 I built these cabinets 18″ deep (because that was about as deep as it needed to be for my clothes hangers to fit and still be able to close the doors). But when it came time to add the middle shelf in the cabinets, for the hanging clothes cabinet, I put it in the middle for the hanging clothes cabinet and for the adjustable shelf cabinet, slightly off center. You can see this in the plans, but you can use a scrap piece of 3/4″ plywood or a piece of 1×4 here and secure between the cabinet sides using pocket holes and screws or simply 1 1/4″ wood screws through the cabinet sides. You can add as many shelves here as you want, but make sure the ones at the top are only about 11 1/4″ deep or the doors with the shoe shelves won’t be able to close.

Once everything was the same thickness, I moved to the table saw and cut down my boards into three 1x12s (from walnut) to use for the shelves, then cut the rest of the wood down to three 1 1/2″ wide strips of walnut and several 1 1/2″ wide strips of white oak. So all I had to do was glue two strips of 3/4″ thick wood together to get a 1 1/2″ thick piece and have a 2×2. Once the glue was dry, I removed the clamps and sanded all the glue off the sides and ta-da! 2x2s 🙂 Working with hardwood made this project a little more time consuming at the beginning, but once step 1 and 2 were done, it’s smooth sailing. If you bought your lumber already milled up or you bought standard sizes from the lumber yard or big box store, here’s where you start your work–in step 3.

How to Build Your Own DIY Raised Garden Bed Spring is right around the corner and if you want to get a head start on your garden, now is the time. These DIY raised garden beds can be built in just a few hours so you can be on your way to deciding what all you want to plant–personally, I’m a fan of the tomatoes and the squash