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But, I made it into a MODULAR DIY Filing Cabinet Desk. And since it’s “modular,” it could be made into so many different things. You can still browse our products during this maintenance, and items that you place in your cart before maintenance begins will still be there after we're done.
Then, I assembled the cabinets with wood glue and 1 ¼″ pocket hole screws. After all the drawers were together, I installed them into the two other filing cabinet carcasses. But, before attaching anything, I needed to cut dadoes to insert the file folder rails.
Step 4: Install Drawers into Cabinets
To finish, I gave everything a couple coats of clear poly (but you could stain/paint as you wish), then installed some modern handles onto the drawers. Create your perfect storage and home office solutions. Experience a better way to redecorate or completely reimagine your home office. Scan, erase, design, and bring your space to life with all new mixed reality tools.
That way, when they’re weighted down, they shouldn’t sag causing misalignment. I installed the bottom slides all the way at the bottom of the cabinet and the top slides, 12 ½″ up from the bottom. This gives plenty of room above each drawer for the file folder tabs. Now back to the build 🙂 If you want to make one of your DIY cabinets from step 1 into a shelf, it’s pretty simple.
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Then, I cut and installed the ¾″ plywood drawer fronts using 1 ¼” wood screws from the inside of the drawer boxes, leaving ⅛″ space around all sides. This project is basically made of three identical plywood cabinet boxes. One has shelves and the other two have drawers. So the first thing I did was build these three cabinet boxes identical in size.
I ripped down some ¾″ plywood strips to use for the drawer boxes to 10 ½″ wide, trimmed them down to size , and cut a dado ½″ from the bottom to install the ¼” plywood drawer bottom. You can get more details in my drawer building guide here. I basically used ¼” plywood as the rails for the file folders like seen below.
Modular Home Office Furniture Sets
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Once all the drawer pieces were cut down, I drilled pocket holes into the ends of the front and back pieces for assembly like shown above. Then, I just used shelf pins to install a ¾″ plywood shelf. But I simply cut my shelf 18″ deep x 22 ¼″ wide. Create a customized home office that is as unique as you are! You can swap in your favorite desk, add cabinets, find storage solutions, seating and other office furnishings to make your ideal work space. As a note, since file folders can get heavy, I made sure to install the slides with several screws in holes that won’t allow for vertical movement.
But, once you get them where they are going, you can simply screw the cabinets together , center the top in place and secure through the top supports of the cabinets with 1 ¼″ screws. I edge banded the top to cover the plywood edges–that’s an optional step. For the shelf cabinet, I used a shelf pin jig to drill holes along both sides to give me the option of an adjustable shelf. You can check out all the details on the Ryobi ONE+ HP 18V Compact Drill and Driver Kit (comes with drill, driver, 2 batteries and a charger!) on the Home Depot website here.
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If you just want regular drawers, you can ignore this part. I repeated this process twice to give me three total cabinet carcasses. Build as many as you want, then decide how you want to fill them–shelves or drawers 🙂 For shelves, see step 2 and for drawers, skip to step 3. The estimated monthly payment shown above equals the purchase price multiplied by 2.124%. It is rounded to the next highest whole dollar. It is only good with the financing offer shown.
Create the perfect home office setup with IKEA computer desks, chairs, filing cabinets and everything else you need to keep you organized and focused. And now you have a modular desk or basic DIY cabinets idea that you can EASILY build and customize as you wish. You could even cut some simple doors to go on those shelf cabinets, too to change things up even more.
Since I’ve been building several desks lately, I thought I’d stick with that theme and share this idea as kind of a modular DIY filing cabinet desk. The purpose of a home office set is to keep you comfortable, organized and focused while you work. Featuring designs such as file storage, desk and chair combos and shelf organizers, these sets ensure your productivity stays high – even while at home. To do this, I measured out the file folder and marked where to cut to slide the plywood in place. In my particular case, I needed exactly 12″ gap between my two plywood rails.
So here’s the dimensions for my dado (I cut out between 12 ¼″ to 12 ½″ from the edge to make a ¼″ dado). Lastly, I nailed a ¼″ plywood back onto the cabinet. You’ll notice, these modular cabinets are 24″ wide overall.
MODULAR OFFICE FURNITURE COLLECTIONS
I glued and screwed scrap ¼″ plywood onto one side of the drawer box, then cut a dado to slide the other piece in place for the other side of the file folder. I cut the scrap piece of ¼” plywood to glue and screw into the side of the drawer box, leaving about ¼” sticking up for the folder to hang on. Then, I cut another piece of ¼″ plywood to slide into the dadoes, leaving ¼” sticking up from the top edge of the drawer. I used my Rip Cut and circular saw to first rip my ¾″ plywood sheet down into strips 20″ wide. You can cut two (29 ¼″) sides and a (22 ½″) bottom from one strip, so you need one 20″ strip for each cabinet box you’re building.
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