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Do-it-yourself wooden tool cabinet. DIY mobile tool cabinet (detailed drawings)


Almost every man has a set of tools in his house or garage. Therefore, it is worth keeping them in perfect order. How best to do this, a new review will tell. Surely everyone will be able to find in it examples of the organization of the storage place that interested him.

1. Plastic cans



Cropped canisters are perfect for storing nails, screws, bolts and nuts. And in order not to dig for a long time in search of the necessary, it is better to mark the containers.

2. Wooden shelf



A narrow wooden shelf with holes is a great place to store screwdrivers.

3. Stand



To prevent pliers from being scattered throughout the garage, make a special tool for them. wooden stand.

4. Railing



A thin metal rod is perfect for hanging paint brushes.

5. Individual cells



From leftovers PVC pipes you can make convenient cells for careful storage of small power tools.

6. Wooden rack



Homemade wooden shelving for storage wrenches will forever forget about the mess and tedious search for the right tool.

7. Open locker



An open wooden cabinet is the best place to store spray paints, which are most often randomly scattered in the garage.

8. Mobile stand



A small stand on wheels is great for storage hand tool. This rack is very compact and will always have the right tool at hand.

9. Wooden stand



Stylish wooden stand with a shelf, which is suitable for storing a wide variety of tools. Such a product will help not only to streamline hand tools, but will also become a real decoration for the men's monastery.

10. Homemade rack



An unnecessary pallet can be turned into a convenient stand for storing garden tools, which often take up a lot of space in the garage.

11. Hanger



A simple wooden block with metal hooks will solve the problem of storing power tools forever.

12. Hangers for clothes



Simple manipulations with an ordinary clothes hanger will allow you to turn it into a convenient organizer for storing electrical tape and adhesive tape.

13. Storage system



Pitchforks, shovels, rakes and other garden tools are not very stable and also take up a lot of space in the garage. Reliable wooden hooks on the walls will help you correctly place garden tools along the walls of the garage or shed.

14. Folding table



A homemade wooden folding table and wall-mounted storage rack for hand tools is a terrific idea for small garage owners.

15. Glass jars



Ordinary glass jars with metal lids are perfect for storing various small items. For greater convenience and reliability, the lids of the cans should be screwed to the shelves.

16. Vertical storage

The usual average garage looks very cluttered. The competent organization of storage systems will help to solve this problem. Instead of another closet, equip the walls with various shelves and hooks, which will allow you to neatly place a variety of things, from tools to a huge boat and bicycles.

17. Magnets



Magnetic tape or separate small magnets are a great idea for storing screwdriver bits, drill bits, and other small metal parts.

In continuation of the topic, we will talk about anywhere.

So that the tools do not take up much space and are laid out in their places, you need to make a tool cabinet with your own hands.

Thanks to the tool cabinet, you can save time looking for the necessary tools and put things in order in the workshop.

Now tool boxes have become widely popular, but with a large number of things and working materials, it is still better to make a separate cabinet for them. A special cabinet will allow you to quickly find the necessary item, as well as avoid cluttering the room.

Wardrobe: description, advantages

Such lockers are made small. In addition, the drawers must be shallow (the depth must ensure that the tool is placed in 1 row).

The design of a specialized locker has a number of advantages, which include the following:

  1. The design of specialized cabinets involves removable (retrievable) boxes that are convenient to carry to the place of work.
  2. The tools lie in one layer and one row, which allows you to quickly find and get the necessary item without scratching or clinging to others.
  3. Due to the small dimensions of the boxes used, the cabinet itself ends up being small-sized.
  4. Ease of manufacture. Such a locker is easy to make on your own, using improvised materials and a minimum of tools.

Separately, it is worth adding drawers under expendable materials: self-tapping screws, screws, bolts, nuts and other hardware. It is desirable to make them so that each partition forms a square. This will allow you to decompose all the small things into cells that need to be signed.

What is required to make a simple tool cabinet will be discussed below.

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Materials and tools necessary for work

In order to do something, you need to collect the right materials. For the cabinet you will need:

  1. Board. Boards can be anything, the cheapest and recommended option is to use a pine board. They make a cabinet frame out of it. The amount of material is calculated and purchased based on the planned size of the craft. The thickness of the board is unprincipled, but it is recommended to take a thicker one, since metal tools have a large mass.
  2. Plywood. The back wall of the cabinet, as well as partitions for drawers, are made from it. Do not use plywood as a bottom for boxes: the sheet is fragile and may not withstand big weight. The amount of material depends on the size of the cabinet, the number and dimensions of the partitions.
  3. Bar. It is advisable to take from the same tree as the boards. Used to create legs or skids for cabinet installation. It is better to use a bar 50x50.
  4. Corners for fasteners. To give the structure strength, you should use specialized furniture corners. Hinges may be needed if you plan to create doors to the cabinet.
  5. Screwdriver. To it should be selected in advance drills of the desired diameter and bits.
  6. Electric saw or hacksaw. Required at the preliminary stage for cutting boards.
  7. Furniture screws with a set of special nuts for them.
  8. Self-tapping screws. It is advisable to make auxiliary fasteners with self-tapping screws, but you can also use nails, in which case you will also need a hammer.

On this list necessary tools and materials, in order to make a tool cabinet with your own hands, you can finish. But there are some recommendations for acquiring materials. Special furniture screws and nuts for them are recommended to be purchased from brass: it does not rust, has high strength, but is expensive.

For wood (when working with a screwdriver), galvanized self-tapping screws are also suitable. It makes no sense to purchase black sharp steel screws (they are more expensive for the same strength characteristics). It is not recommended to use nails when assembling the structure due to the fact that the tree dries out over time and they cannot provide the necessary strength. Shelves can be made from a strong sheet of plywood, but it is recommended to make them from thin boards: they are more reliable and do not sag under heavy weight.

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Preparatory stage

At the preparatory stage, a number of works necessary for normal assembly are performed. You should start with a drawing. If the cabinet is made for yourself, and not to order, you can not bother carefully drawing out the design, but make a small sketch. It is necessary to determine the dimensions of the main parts: the back and side walls, the lid and the pallet, the shelves (they are usually comparable to the dimensions of the lid and walls minus 3-5 mm). When designing a cabinet, remember that the thickness of the shelf must be taken into account.

The drawers must be assembled and fitted to the dimensions of the shelves (minus 5-7 mm for free movement). It is not recommended to make drawers non-removable: this will complicate the work with the tool. It is recommended to design the placement of tools in boxes in 1 row (and 1 layer). This will add convenience during work and allow you to make the locker shallow.

The legs can be made from a bar quite simply - just cut out 4 cubes of sizes 50x50x50, but it is better to mount them on the runners from the bar. To do this, fix the beam along the length perpendicular to the direction of the boards along the extreme lines of the bottom of the cabinet, and attach the legs to the received runners.

Before starting all work, absolutely all wooden parts. To do this, timber, boards and plywood are impregnated with an antifungal (antibacterial) solution, then they are allowed to dry. The next step is impregnation with a special primer for wood. After the primer dries, it is treated with Aquastop.

If the boards are unprocessed (unplaned), then they should first be planed and also sawn according to the dimensions of the parts for the cabinet (it is important to process the end surfaces as well).

Tools are available in every home. Especially if there is a man in it who loves and knows how to make something with his own hands. Some ask the question: Why you need a tool cabinet because they can be put anywhere? But this question is asked by people who do not want or do not know how to make various things at home. House master knows that a tool cabinet is a must.

Hammer, screwdriver and pliers, which are often used for elementary works, can be placed anywhere. But for a large number of tools, a good and convenient cabinet is required. It should fit the entire instrument and, moreover, not take up too much space. For these purposes, cabinets, bedside tables, chests are fitted. You can, of course, use all of this. On the tool storage cabinet quite easy to do. Every home master can do this.

So, how to organize a tool cabinet

Exists a good option such furniture, which is a wardrobe with two wings. The doors swing open, and in the middle part of the cabinet there is a folding table. In the cabinet, you can mount a separate lighting. When closed, it takes up very little space, so it can be installed in a small city apartment. The easiest way to make such a cabinet is from wood.

To do wooden tool cabinet, will need:

  • pine boards (thickness 20-25 mm);
  • plywood (thickness 10-12 mm);
  • wooden bars (section 40X40 mm, or 50X50 mm);
  • hacksaw, hammer, nails (30-60 mm), screws (30-60 mm).
  • metal corners (100-150 mm and 80 mm);
  • hinges (120 mm) and other fittings.

Before you start making a cabinet, you need to decide on its location in the house, with dimensions. For example, there is free space. Two meters along the wall. If the central part of the cabinet is 100 cm wide, then the doors should be 50 cm each. When opened, they will occupy these 2 meters of free space. The height, for example, will also be 2 meters.

Now you need to take the prepared lumber and cut them to size. The back of the cabinet, as well as the back (and at the same time the front) part of its swinging doors, can be made of thick plywood. The side walls are made of boards. Between themselves, the boards can be connected with metal corners.

It turns out, as it were, three identical rectangular boxes. Now the task is to attach the sashes on hinges or hinges to the central part so that they open and close with ease. But before you do this, you need to fix the central part of the product on the wall. Here, high-quality fasteners are important, since, given that the table will recline in the closet, there will be a large load. You need to fasten directly to the wall using metal corners. The corners are attached to the boards. Holes are pre-drilled in the wall into which the chopsticks are hammered.

After the central part of the product is fixed, you can mount the table. He is wooden board, which is lowered on hinges in lower part closet. From below, on a table-top, 1 or 2 folding legs are fixed. Also on hinges. Hinges can be used for door hinges. But they must be sufficiently massive and fixed firmly. The table should not be too large so as not to increase the load on the cabinet.

The next stage of work will be fastening the opening doors. They need to be adjusted so that the move is smooth and they fit perfectly in size. To fix the sashes in the open state, special clamps can be provided on the wall.

Tool holder

Now you need to provide for mounting tools. Of course, that all heavy tools should be located in the central part, which is securely fixed to the wall. You can make shelves, hinges, other fixtures. In the doors, as moving parts, lighter things are located. For example, metal or plastic boxes with various small things can be fixed on them. Nails, bolts, etc.

Lighting installation

Of course, you can also install a portable table lamp with a clothespin mount. But it is much better to have separate lighting for such a cabinet. You can also provide an outlet located so that you can conveniently turn on the power tool there. You can even draw a separate line from the electrical distribution panel. The line must be connected via an emergency shutdown switch.

Here you go, tool cabinet ready. It remains only to pay attention to the exterior finish, so that when closed it fits into the interior of the room. And he fit in well. Don't forget about the door handles. If there are small children in the house, a latch or lock can be provided.


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The idea itself was spinning in my head for quite some time, but since there was no required material, then it was necessary to constantly postpone its implementation. But after the construction of these shelves and racks, quite a lot of various chipboard cores remained. Actually after that I decided to put together a small box in tool cabinet so that it slides out if necessary, that is, it is on a hinge. Initially, it was an ordinary closet in the apartment, converted over time into a tool cabinet. It would be possible, stupidly to hang it with deep shelves from the far wall, to the very door, and no longer bathe. But deep shelves have one big minus, they become cluttered over time so that it becomes difficult to get to the far corner to get something very necessary. And according to the law of meanness, everything you need, as a rule, lies in the far corner.

Therefore, in this cabinet I decided to simply hang a lot of small and not very deep shelves for a specific tool or material. The pictures below show what came out of it. I hung them in the middle part of the cabinet, mainly for bolts, self-tapping screws and power tools, so that a large pull-out shelf remained under them, and under it there was a compartment for the compressor and paint brushes. Also along the edges of the cabinet, a pair of backlight threads was built in, which turns on when the door is opened.

The photo below shows that after this upgrade, there was an unused void in the middle of the cabinet. Here in this place, I decided to attach a small drawer, thereby increasing the usable area for a variety of instrumental junk.

These are actually chipboard cores from which I will assemble a box.

This is how it looks like in the end. Twisted on ordinary self-tapping screws and iron corners.

It was supposed to take it aside, like an ordinary door. But since this drawer will be located a little deeper, relative to the door frame of the cabinet, it was necessary to build such hinges so that they could be used to pull the drawer out of the cabinet.

Actually, a box already screwed into place. At first glance, everything seems fine, but as soon as you open it, all these loops begin to break. And in the end, this box hung diagonally, and this is given that there was no tool in it yet.

In general, I had to abandon these furniture loops and ask my friends to cook something more powerful. As a result, we got such a loop made of thick sheet iron, round timber, nuts and a corner, on which you can now safely hang yourself, but it will not even bend :-)

Since the entire mass of the tool box will fall on the lower part of this hinge, then in the upper part of the hinge, the corner is made of a thin strip, because the loads there are minimal.

Here you can see a cardboard template by which the dimensions of the hinge were measured so that the box could freely sink into the cabinet.

The base was also cut out of sheet iron, on which the box will rotate.

We transfer the mark of the hole for the pin, from the cardboard template to the sheet of iron and drill it.

After that, we fasten this piece of iron to the base of the box.

At the end, I lightly greased all the rubbing surfaces of this hinge with grease, put this box on the pin of the lower support and secured it by screwing the upper edge of the hinge to the box. On this powerful hinge, the box is now easily and effortlessly rotated with one finger.

On the back side of this box, I screwed fragments of galvanized strips that act as spring-loaded holders, holding an oversized tool in the form of a variety of hacksaws for wood and metal.

A little video in which this box in action.


Unfortunately, I have not yet begun to finally settle in this box, embedding various cups and cells for open-end wrenches, screwdrivers, drills, hammers and other tools into it, because the way to open this box has become disliked over time. The idea itself is not bad, but only if the door opens rarely or automatically. And so, with some minor repairs in the apartment, sometimes you have to poke into this closet a dozen times and waste precious time pulling a drawer out of it :-) Now we plan to move this drawer to the door so that when only one door is opened, the whole instrument would be at a glance, that is, in one movement of the hand. But for this it is necessary to change the door itself, since this one is very old, loose (chipboard), slightly curved and with weak hinges.

Tools are available in every home. Especially if there is a man in it who loves and knows how to make something with his own hands. Then the tools are just an incredible amount. After all, in a good economy everything is useful.

Hammer, screwdriver and pliers, which are often used for elementary work, can be placed anywhere.

But for a large number of tools, a good and convenient cabinet is required. It should fit the entire instrument and also not take up too much space.

For these purposes, cabinets, bedside tables, chests are fitted. Hang the tool on the wall in the corridor or glazed balcony.

You can, of course, use all of this. But it’s not difficult to make a tool cabinet with your own hands. And this optimal solution. Indeed, in this case, it will be ideally suited to the needs of the home master.

There is a wonderful version of such furniture, which is a wardrobe with two wings. The doors swing open, and in the middle part of the cabinet there is a folding table. It is convenient to use for work. In the closet, you can mount a separate lighting, which will further increase comfort. When closed, it takes up very little space, so it can be installed in a small city apartment. For example, on the loggia. Such furniture will satisfy the needs of the most captious master.

List of materials

For this you need:

  • pine boards;
  • plywood;
  • wooden bars;
  • hacksaw, hammer, nails, screws;
  • metal corners;
  • hinges and other accessories.

Before you start making a cabinet, you need to decide on its location in the house and, accordingly, on the dimensions. For example, there is free space - two meters along the wall. If the central part of the cabinet is 100 cm wide, then the doors should be 50 cm each. When opened, they will occupy these 2 meters of free space. The height, for example, will also be 2 meters. Everything, the sizes are defined.

Now you need to take the prepared lumber and cut them to size. The back of the cabinet, as well as the back (and at the same time the front) part of its swinging doors, can be made of thick plywood. The side walls are made of boards. Between themselves, the boards can be connected with metal corners.

As a result of such work, three identical rectangular boxes are obtained, as it were. Now the task is to attach the sashes on hinges or hinges to the central part so that they open and close easily. But before you do this, you need to fix the central part of the product on the wall. Here, high-quality fasteners are important, since, given that the table will recline in the closet, it will have a large load. You need to fix the cabinet directly to the wall using metal corners. The corners are attached to the boards. Holes are pre-drilled in the wall, into which the chopsticks are hammered.

After the central part of the product is fixed, you can mount the table. It is a wooden board that hinges down to the bottom of the cabinet. From below, on a table-top, 1 or 2 folding legs are fixed. The same on the hinges. Hinges can be used for door hinges. But they must be sufficiently massive and fixed firmly. The tabletop should not be too large so as not to increase the load on the cabinet. In the folded position, there should still be free space under it.

The next stage of work will be fastening the opening doors. They need to be adjusted so that the move is smooth and they fit perfectly in size. To fix the sashes in the open state, special fasteners can be provided on the wall.

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Tool holder

Next important point in the manufacture of such a cabinet is the fastening of various tools in it. After all, that is what it was created for.

Of course, that all heavy tools should be located in the central part, which is securely fixed to the wall.

In the doors, as moving parts, lighter things are located. You can fully use your imagination so that everything is at hand and the tool is convenient to use.

For example, metal or plastic boxes with various small things can be fixed on the doors: nails, screws, bolts, etc.

At the very bottom of the central part, it is possible to provide fasteners for a heavy tool, such as a puncher or a grinder.