What used to be only a 12" deep cabinet with an opening only wide enough for 1 jar of pasta sauce, meaning everything behind it was lost in an abyss...now has a 23"d pull-out can-binet (can cabinet. No? Yeah, it's hard to say, too: "canbinet"...doesn't roll off the tongue).
*I still want to cut slots on the underside of the shelves (which are adjustable, btw) so that they don't slide forward, out of the cabinet. When the unit is pulled out, there's a little side-to-side wobble, so I want to make the shelves "hook" onto the shelf pins. You do that by cutting a partial-depth dado into the underside for the pin to rest in. Right now, it's unfinished. Might give it a wipe-in poly some time, though. We'll see.
The carcass and shelf bottoms is made from leftover "subfloor" plywood from our flooring install, and the walnut fronts in the shelves are actually scraps of out actual flooring.all held together with glue, and a couple brad nails just so that I could un-clamp the glued joints and keep moving. No screws.
Learnings: when using masking tape on a drill bit, after drilling nearly 100 holes, the tape gets pushed up a bit by debris, making every hole slightly deeper than the last. By the time I got to the last of the 96 holes, the hole right at the top, right on the front face, it was enough to blow all the way though. So there's a stupid hole right in the front. I had already installed the pull knob, otherwise I would have re-used that hole for it.
Before we could install it, we had to cut out the back panel of the cabinet. Then, because it's a face frame cabinet, I added a panel on the inside to bring the inside wall flush with the face frame. This eay, the glide would have something to attach to, so that I wouldn't need to use "face frame cabinet drawer slide brackets", which are a HUGE pain, and would have been an even huge pain working with them inside a 9"w cabinet with a 6" opening. Ha! Working inside was super tough...at only 9" wide, I couldn't fit a drill inside to be able to drive the screws. I have a 90° drill adaptor, but you have to be able to use 2 hands, otherwise it just spins. Getting the 2nd arm in there was tough, especially with the screws in the back. This felt a little like trying to build a ship in a bottle.
Amusingly, as we were emptying the cans out of the overhead cabinet to move them down here, we found two things we thought we were out of, and had already added them to our shopping list for this next weekend. Ha!
The drawer glides do stick out the front, unfortunately. I wanted to make sure the glides were strong enough, so we got 150lb-rated ones, and they needed to have an "over-pull" (so it pulls out even further than "full extension"), and I couldn't find those in 22", only 24".
The funny thing is that this area was completely empty when we moved in. The counter top went all the way to the wall, but there was no base cabinet. One day at Lowe's, we saw a clearance slightly damaged 9" wide *overhead* cabinet. We bought it, put legs on it, and wedged it in (with a hammer and a lot of grunting). Now we've butched the cabinet to mount this storage in it. Still find it funny we fit a 23" deep shelf into a 12" deep cabinet. It's like a Tardis, or Charlie Sheen's trailer from Loaded Weapon 1: it's actually bugger inside than it looks on the outside.
this is the panel I added to the inside, to bring the sode wall flush with the face frame. These holes were meant to line up with the studs in the wall, so I'd be drilling through this material, through the cabinet wall, the slight gap next to the cabinet, the drywall, then finally into the stud. I drilled 3 hiles at each location, because my stud finder isn't totally accurate. I only used one in each trio. Countersunk, so that the screw heads didn't conflict with the drawer glides (I didn't know where those were going yet). This was a piece of scrap material I got from a work project. Yes, it's pretty nice white oak veneer, but it's super thin and just MDF core.
we'se been using the back as a staining/paint surface. Had to add shims/spacers so that the panel could sit straight both inside and outside the back of the cabinet.
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