Tiny Pantry Closet With MAX STORAGE!

he was gonna get Alex here for mr. buildin and welcome to my kitchen so this ladies gentleman is our pantry and well not never big it's not very functional because it's super deep that you can't really get to so in today's video we're gonna take this well boring pantry and turn it to that so that wasting your time let me show how I built it and let's get into it the video let's go [Music] but before we get started let's talk about sponsors today video is squarespace.com from website designs online stores to marketing tools and analytics Squarespace is a all-in-one platform to help build your online present and help you run your business successfully now some of my favorite features include built in a mobile website every website design automatically includes a unique mobile experience layout that matches the overall feel of your website and if that's not something you like you can simply disable it and go old-school with e-commerce templates inventory management simple and secure 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between a bunch of projects didn't have time did not have time so I decided to flip it until a situation like today well I'm gonna build one but I want to make it something abstract something little bit fancy maybe a little centerpiece natural wood maybe a staggered pattern I don't know we'll see what the creativity comes to us but in the meantime let's take a run to the hardware store alright I don't know how this happens to me when I store happens all the time it's gonna pour any second in fact in a storm all day I have three sheets of 3/4 inch maple plywood three sheets and that's like a hundred and seventy dollars after-tax and if it rains vii gets ruined it's like delaminates and this could have been us oh it's could have been as friends I'm gonna build a cabinet that is out of Mable plywood both the sides and the back the entire sucker is gonna slide into that small pantry space so we're gonna break it down on our tracks aw and then I'm gonna assemble everything with pocket holes and then as its assembled and making sure the most important part everything is square cuz that's if it's at a square main our life is gonna suck and I'm gonna slide it into that space never done something that so let's get to work let's go [Music] all right we got these suckers cut this is huge so we're gonna adjust this or assemble this via pocket holes if in past you guys have seen me used a Craig Forman I can get these big boards on there without breaking my back so we're gonna do the old-fashioned way that's a little pricey this is a very inexpensive it's about 20 bucks it's a Craig mini and all it is is you set your dial to three-quarter inch that's the Mattila we're working with and then you take your clamp clamp it like so in plate you're gonna take your drill bit that comes with it drive that in place and now boom we have a pocket hole we're gonna use our inch and a quarter screws and secure it in place I get a bunch of messages saying pocket holes or wood glue both you got to use both so let's get to putting sitting together we have some glue squeezing out in the best solution I found is taking a damp rag not too wet and then making sure you get it all out there so don't forget that [Music] I'm gonna go on record and say somewhere along my building career while shooting videos for YouTube I'm gonna break my back on camera I can't be lifting stuff like this like that anymore it's heavy I'm gonna have to help somebody help me bring it now before we can install it we need to do the favorite part of any Home Makeover is demo day let's make a blank canvas that's the best part let's go [Music] and just like that we got the shelves out now here's a demoing trick if you're going to wear safety glasses make sure you wear them on the back of your head so what it's supposed to do like a booth got to where I'm gonna really hurt my eye so be safe use a stiff putty brush or knife put it underneath and then use the leverage of your hammer or your pry bar to push it away so it distributes the actual pressure of the pry bar and just like that no drive will work needed to be done you need to find the nearest cable for power do you guys mind if I build something is that cool I hope I'm not interfering with them I need to find the nearest power cable how lucky are we check this out folks we got ourselves a power cable I'll let you [Music] all right so at this point we're gonna do the electrical before we start putting the cabinet in in order to make it a safe connection we need to create a junction box you want to put something there that way the next owner that comes in before they start cutting into the wall they know that there's some kind of electrical box that's there we're gonna put it on the inside of this wall here we're gonna throw a junction box there we're gonna connect the cable I got one of these little Milwaukee's their voltage detectors and they're really neat because once you touch it it starts beeping telling the wires hot all right folks made a mistake can't just usually cut a cable right in the middle and then split it reason why is you can't put a junction box can't connect them to there's not enough slack to bring it in so I'm gonna go on the underside of the wall put in the new long cable with plenty of snacks slack that way it'll be done the right way I learn from my mistakes but a harm no foul we just learned something new and let me get that fix and I'll see you guys a little bit Thanks [Music] okay so here's what we got going on here a lot has happened mostly because I turned the camera off to figure things out embracing that sweat part of the courage ripped out the drywall red junction box there place it on the other side of this wall extended it right here when you guys do electrical I use these little connector extenders so much better than those twisty ones I'm the exact names for it all the electrical guys are gonna kill me because the back of our cabinet is wood you cannot have an exposed gap before their receptacle whatnot you have to do one of two routes one is these basically box extenders what it does is creates a covering for the electrical part between the wood what I did is I just took a three-quarter inch piece of maple later against my stub and then use that as a spacer before securing this electrical box I can go bring the cabinet in and fingers crossed nothing goes wrong but if it does we'll just take more blood pressure medicine all right for the shelves we're gonna do only two of them we're gonna cut out the inside of it and then edge band veneer it throw some pocket holes on the back and then secure these in place [Music] so this bandsaw it's not wide enough to make the cut that I need the blade popped off I guess I will be using a jigsaw see I'm one of you guys let's do jigsaw [Music] all right so for edge banding mini are very easy this is iron-on stuff make sure you guys get that kind of stuff paid 16 bucks for this and it's like 50 feet get your iron super hot turn the steam off in fact I would just get the water out of it start out with the edge hold it on there for air no 5 seconds or so grab a scrap piece of wood and start pressing on the wood glue onto the end grain plywood edges once that's done now that's not going anywhere we can slap working this way out nice slow pace the hotter the better and then just keep pressing on all right and once you got it on and you're kind of flicking it on the sides here we you're kind of scraping all excise you see if there's any change in pitch they'll kind of tell you if some parts not connected then you'll take a razor blade cut off this excess run your blade along it be careful not to cut your existing veneer on your plywood once you get it off and yes it's still sharp so then the trick is you get 120 grit sandpaper with a little block and you start working this little edge with the surface to create a nice flush piece that actually looks like solid one-piece wood [Music] that's I think that's how the Egyptians moved the pyramids they just put a drop buff down I was just pulling it when I have a dolly I need to get a dolly and also what's the over-under that the sink fits okay go go I wanted to make it perfect let me know in description below okay it's touching it like a sixteenth to an eighth of an inch trowel I'm going to remove that drywall all right I removed the upper piece of drywall here and this lower piece of travel we're going in it's in oh man it's in all right so now that we got our cabinet in we need to do three drawers that are going to sit below the countertop here so I'm gonna keep them nice and short it'll give us all the room that we gonna have to dig too far into it and on top of it these drawers are gonna be pretty big and the drawer slides they have a rating for a hundred pounds and yes it's not gonna be I still want to push the weight limits so my drawer is only gonna be 24 inches deep it's gonna leave a couple inches in the back because I have an outlet I'm gonna plug things in it I don't want anything banging against it [Music] all right so I got my drawers all cut up these are the sides five inches tall this is the bottom I'm actually doing the full 3/4 inch for the bottom I don't want it to ever sag they're not gonna have drawer face frames or anything like that I'm thinking about making a cut out here I don't know what do you guys think should I do that cut I think it'll be decorative enough it'll Plus will match the open yeah I will I'm gonna make that cut [Music] all right this is one of my favorite jigs mostly because it keeps it so simple it has a magnet right here place it right here this creates a nice 90-degree angle and then from that point you can start securing it so 15 bucks or so maybe less but I've installed countless drawers with it [Music] [Applause] now I'll be a hundred percent transparent with you guys let me show you the situation happen in the drawers excuse the noise these are drawers and you're thinking wait why are the jurors there if they're already installed these are my first batch of yours so I measured for these drawers on the outside here instead of the inside because there's nothing securing it here there's quite a bit of flex I made the last drawers 1/4 inch too wide so I had to redo them what otherwise measure from back or if you have a reinforcement piece here which I will you'll be safe in so live and learn what's nice is I got a bunch of these scrap pieces from the cut I'm going to use to create a bracket for our countertop granted to sit on now this is the last piece and I'm adding before we start working on the granite this is more from keeping the cabinets from flying open because there's a little flex there so we need a little reinforcing pieces they do this with cabinets that's what I've noticed though they'll just kind of secure it to keep the two ends from splitting now don't get our granite cut [Music] all right so over here I have a beautiful piece of court I don't know enough about it I know that I worked for about a year when I first married my wife for my father who owns a Granite Company so I got a few little tricks from him I used a little scrap piece of one by five clamped it down to work as a guide with my grinder and a diamond blade and we're gonna start just following it along the line making nice slow passes don't try to cut it all at once in fact if you can do like three eights at a time Van Tassel I start cutting let's go look at this cut that is a clean cut sir all right so really happy with how everything came out I was nervous about it now now we got to polish this end is a three step polishing pad comes in a little wheel you set your oh that's kind of a cool effect huh whoo we set the angle grinder to like 1500 2000 rpms and then you kind of take your time going through the polishing pads kind of like sanding I guess and then give it a nice small little round over so let's see how this turns out [Music] my first time absolutely first time polishing surprisingly a lot easier than I thought it would be came out great let's go throw it on top and see how it looks look how good it looks it's amazing what happens once the countertop goes on and you're like oh I see what you're doing here the blue tape by the way that's just to make sure it doesn't scratch around as we're pushing it in typically you have to have door jams and so because we have the space here we're gonna remove this drywall here and we're gonna use a pine that's where the door guy recommended for me to use I found this one by three it's a pine I'm gonna start lining around the edges I'm gonna make sure it's square secured in place let's get to work I slipped on the door jams the floor is my first reference a good handy tool is to use a nice long square like this I need to bring this down about 1/8 there so I may use I'm gonna use these little shims put it right where the screw would go drive it through in place all right so all four corners are squared off got my shims in place I'm just gonna use like a flesh saw to cut it nice and clean and then we're gonna put our trim board on and then we'll get start out in the door [Music] so the last thing that we need to get ready and built on this pantry to finish it is the door my budget alternative plus a technique that one experiment with includes just using a sheet of maple plywood it's all in my head I've never tried it before we're gonna give it a go let me show what I mean let's get started alright so this will be interesting so I've made lines across this entire plane and then on each line I'm gonna take my track saw and cut all the way through stopping where these borders are to give that cold retro look never done this so looks kind of bland but you know I got something up my sleeve I figured that we cut up some inch and a half strips plywood and then secure it like a frame that'll also strengthen the door from bending I literally came up with this idea last minute I'm really excited so I'm gonna flip this thing over create some pocket holes and that way I could secure this on the sides and then put our bracket that will be our hinge that's gonna be swing it open so pretty excited I was really worried about finding solution but I'm pretty excited about this [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey thanks so much for sticking around and finishing this video it means the world to me guys this project is a labor of love there's a lot of frustration that happened along the way a lot of things that I didn't consider like the fact that though the cabinet might be square the framing might not based off of the previous door that was here that they just kind of shimmed it out so a lot of things came with it a lot of you always ask me how I know how to build where did I get my resources and to be completely honest with you everything is trial and error I'm just not afraid to make these mistakes I made mistakes and I learned for them and I'm I take it on to my next project and be that much more educated and skilled for the next one so we're gonna embrace to do the difficult things are out there in life they're gonna make us a better person so courage and sweat that's what we live by we need the courage to well to rip out our pantry and we need to sweat to get through those frustrating moments to persevere through all that hard work and come out of it being better versions of ourselves and as builders be sure to LIKE comment and share this video with your friends I will place links down in description of this video of the tools that are used on this project as well as my social media links you guys can connect with me there including the merch section that helps support this channel and my patreon page where I will be putting out videos sharing some of the things that I would have done differently on every project so if that is something you guys like me sure you check me out there in the meantime tune out this week we'll see you guys on the next one see ya 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