36" Corner Base Easy Reach Kitchen Cabinet - Basic Model

These look almost exactly like the Ikea cabinets I've been eyeing . . . but I can make these with Purebond. Hooray! I think the only mod I'd make is to have an angled door (if I could make my countertops work with that . . . it might take some doing).

Thank you so much!

Now, if there was only an "Add to my To-Do List" link at the top of each post, so when I come to the site to add a plan to my To-Do List (after reading the post in my reader), I don't have to scroll and scroll, miss the end, scroll and scroll, miss the end coming back up, and then finally find it. lol

I love how you maximized the materials!

We are getting ready to really dig in to remodeling our kitchen. It's been a slow work in progress for a while because of the cost of kitchen cabinets. I think we can follow these plans well enough to build our own! Now just need to talk the hubster into buying that Kreg Jig I keep looking at at my local home store! Thanks so much.

I am so excited about this plan. When we built our house, the cabinet man was awful. We fired him and have lived with a less than ideal kitchen. We have all the tools we need, but until now I could find no straight forward plans for cabinets. I very much like your thrift when cutting lumber. In my previous life I used to make cutting diagrams for aluminum storefront (I was the estimator) for the guys in the shop to follow. Do you plan on making the upper cabinet? How about a tall pullout pantry? An oven cabinet. Again, thanks. I admire you also for dealing with the dark. I could never live in Alaska. Jane

Anna, your a wizard at this.... but I just a thought.

I had a cabinet just like this at my last home. My builder had a great Idea to put in a round 2 tiered rotating shelving unit. (Lazy Susan @ Rockler $42.00) This saved alot of akward reaching and stress on the back getting out the various baking ingredient containers, electrical appliances....etc. This also gave us a place to put the larger baking sheets, giant cutting board and....
you get my drift. The only down sided was losing that last little bit of space in the back corner.

Good luck!

Anna, your a wizard at this.... but I just a thought.

I had a cabinet just like this at my last home. My builder had a great Idea to put in a round 2 tiered rotating shelving unit. (Lazy Susan @ Rockler $42.00) This saved alot of akward reaching and stress on the back getting out the various baking ingredient containers, electrical appliances....etc. This also gave us a place to put the larger baking sheets, giant cutting board and....
you get my drift. The only down sided was losing that last little bit of space in the back corner.

Good luck!

I get so excited when I see your plans for the cabinets - my husband and I were going to try our hand at them and I've been so nervous about doing it because I didn't know how they would go together, if they would be strong enough, etc.

Then, when I saw your cabinets I got excited again because you break it down for me to understand and I now realize I could build a whole house full of cabinets if I really want to!

Thank you so much for allowing us to ride along with you on your journey and teach us along your way! As I've said before, you are a ROCK STAR!!!!!

Hi Ana,

Another option (I did this in my last kitchen), is to use a blind corner pullout.
http://www.leevalley.com/en/hardware/page.aspx?p=43657&cat=3,43722,43723...

That way, you gain access to the whole area, and the other half can be used for drawers etc. Not cheap, of course, especially when you are DIYing. But I do find things get "lost" in corner cabinets.

I suspect someone could come up with a clever, cheaper solution.

I love your work. I would like to take the challenge of building myself some kitchen cabinets, but I have never done this type of work. You make it seem so easy. What skill level do I have to be in order to tackle such a job.? Also would you be able to give me some pointers as I take this challenge?

What a great tutorial. I'm looking forward to some project for beginners woodworkers and this was one of the best I found. In details, I must be easy to understand. Thanks a lot for sharing.

Hi Ana, I was off today seeking price quotes for tools and wood. Since I live in the Virgin islands, we do not have the ply wood you used. The one I saw was untreated Baboon ply. Will this work for cabinets? Also we do not have the Kreg Jig. What should I do about that? The set I saw does not have haft the things sew in the Kreg jig set. Help!! I need all the help I can get.

Ana,

I'm thinking about gutting my kitchen and starting over now that you have ssssssooooooo kindly posted cabinet plans! Do you have any thoughts on how I could use the corner cabinet as a sink base? For example, I would like to used Blue's CorStone Double Basin Acrylic Topmount Kitchen Sink (Item # 193388, Model # 31300). Any idea how to change the plan to accomodate a double basin sink? My thought is it would be a good use of the corner since it can be tough to get inside a cabinet. Instead the plumbing can go in there.

Any input you can give me would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Katie

I am going to attempt this project tomorrow with my mom. I purchased solid hardwood kitchen cabinets used off Craigslist and the kitchen they came out of had NO corner cabinets at all (base or wall). So we decided to build one to match the other cabinets. I found your plans through a search and I'm very excited to use them. They seem pretty simplified and should help us get this thing done right! I'll post once I've finished with pictures! :-)

This is just what I was looking for,,do you have any other plans such as for a lazy Susan.
helpful links I am trying to match existing cabinets and building additional ones for the additional room next to kitchen.