This may get moved, but I hope not. I want my 928 brothers opinion and input on this.

My shop is coming right along. Now I need some cabinets. What cabinets have you guys put in your shops?

I need an 18' base cabinet and one 10' wall and one 4' wall cabinet. I priced custom cabinets locally using birch and standard type hardware and countertop at $3k.

Is there an online supplier of nice shop cabinets that someone here has used?

 

$3k, Might not be a bad deal, with countertops. I do custom cabinets for a living, I did a garage recently and it was about the same linear ft. Uppers and Lowers with 24' sqft. of 3cm granite.. It was $11k, but these were pretty nice maple cabinets, nice for a house. Extravagant fro a garage.

 

I went a different route on mine. Instead of the industrial look I went with unfinished interior cabinets and laminate counter tops.

 

David,

I peruse this website on ocasion to get ideas and inspiration for my garage. Take a look, there are tons of approaches to this. Can't wait to see you post pics of the inside when your done. http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/index.php

 

I used Closet-Maid Max load from Home Depot. Then had a counter top made for them.

 

heres another closet-Maid pic from a fellow lister on the 911 form.

 

you guys make me sick I'm gonna go kick the dog now.

Ps: love the checkered floor.

 

I have a couple of the Craftsman Pro cabinets and really like them- They're extremely well made for the price.

The workbench is a 3x6 foot piece of maple from Grizzly, along with their Shop Fox leg kit. You could probably rest the car on it, ( well, half the car, I think they're rated for 1 ton.....)

928 content:

 

Brad what kind of shop light is that under your cabinet and how do you like it?

I unfortunately couldn't aford the cabinets you guys bought so I settled on the following:http://www.coleman.com/coleman/colem...tegoryid=67001

They're very heavy duty particle board (emphasis on heavy) and look nice. If your garage will be wet I wouldn't get them, otherwise they get the job done. I hope to get something like what Brad has eventually but for now this will do.

 

David--

I have a combo of Stanley Vidmar cabs and some built-by-Bob drawer cabs. I go auction hunting for garage cabs when I need them, looking for Vidmar or similar. Karen's brother Ed was visiting here while I was off on a project, and she decided to "surprise" me by having Ed make an 8' long workbench drawer cabinet. It's workbench high, with a laminate kitchen top on it. I followed that up with some other cabs for golf clubs and stuff, with cherry-finished faces on all of them. They will all be refaced in the next couple months since the plywood doors are warped, by the way. Don't use home-center plywood for doors. ;( The steel cabs have oak butcher-block tops on them, purchased at the local Ikea store. The pound-on-it bench has a wood top made by screwing and gluing 2x4's together on edge to make a 3 1/2" thick top. Less than $50 for 8' x 24" deep. Planed and belt-sanded it and added a couple polyurethane coats to it to seal it, good to go.

The steel Vidmars were a few $hundred each at auction. One pair was locked and no key, and we discovered later at home that it was stocked with stainless Swagelock fittings that I sold back to a local distributor for 30% of retail, more than enough to cover the cost of all the cabinets. That was a bargain deal in the end.

I'm not at all a fan of having tools hanging on the walls, BTW. I made the upper storage cabs using 2x4 framing like face-frames, painted black, and wire shelving from H-D. Added the wood doors with catches so the stuff stays clean and stays inside when the ground moves. The spacings are set up so that 24 of those flip-lid storage boxes fit into one 24" deep section, while the rest are 16" deep, configured to use the clear Sterilite bin-boxes with lids that you can find cheap at Wal-Mart.

 

Cough....Rob cleaned up his shop before shooting that photo!! LOL

 

My Dad owns a custom cabinet shop and he said 3k isn't bad with counter tops. He did say the birch wood is **** though.

 

Hey Sean, the potted tree in the center is a nice touch, but I don't think it's getting enough sunlight.

 

For the time being, I'm using my old kitchen cabinets in the garage...

I think one of the coolest features is the Antler, which does double duty as a hook to hold a long cable.

That's style and function united!

 

I went with Coleman CD2 from Lowes as well. They're very affordable and have held up fairly well so far. Concur with the comment about keeping them dry. The darker colored cainets on the right are the older style, the lighter with black rubber handles are the current design. Although I like the new look, they've downgraded from euro self-closing hidden hinges to standard types with a magnet to hold the doors closed.

They'll occasionally go on sale and it's hard to beat the price.