How To Build A Refrigerator Enclosure

We learned with our first kitchen that building in your fridge is a huge help in making a kitchen look fancy schmancy.

How to build a refrigerator enclosure.

Everything is built in and usually covered with moldings. Building the fridge cabinet once we figured out all the logistics in this small space the build was pretty straight forward. Then use the top of the refrigerator to make sure that the cabinet is level. You ll probably have to shim the top as well.

A false wall allows the cabinet depth to match the refrigerator depth without cutting into the wall or requiring custom cabinets. The first thing we did was build a refrigerator enclosure. And at the moment our floating fridge was looking pretty much the exact opposite. Not a fun job but it gave us more room to build our custom refrigerator cabinet.

Building a false wall requires construction work and the space between the two walls is unusable. After looking through so many pictures of beautiful kitchens i decided to enclose that big monster in order to make it look a bit smaller and to make the overall space look more professional. Custom homes have a space for every appliance. Once your refrigerator is in place you can start building the cabinet around it.

I used my kreg jig to create pocket holes to secure it to the floor and put supports across the back. The custom refrigerator enclosure is attached to the end of the cabinets and has a shelf to hold my cookbooks. That s where an also less than schmancy 19 cabinet from the habitat for humanity restore mentioned yesterday came in handy it s 12 tall and 36 wide the exact width of our fridge. Create a built in if there isn t one.

The basic pieces are an mdf wood panel for the side and a box for the cabinet also made with mdf. You need to make sure that you are using your level while you are building so that your cabinet is even with the wall and floor. My picture perfect kitchen was a traditional in style with moldings i love them but with a. To polish it up i added trim around all the edges filled all cracks and.

A cheap and fairly easy way to add an expensive look to your kitchen is to frame out your fridge.