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Paint Cabinet

My wife enjoys Tole painting as a hobby. One thing about this hobby is it has a ton of different paint colors.

I wanted a design that could hold a very high number of bottles, yet could be flexible in case we either wanted to change the storage position of the bottles or simply wanted to replace a shelf. To accomplish this, all shelving is simply slotted in and can easily be pulled out.

I used Macromedia FreeHand as a makeshift CAD program to draw and plan it out. It worked well enough I was able to solve most of my design questions before any material was involved.

At the time I had a coworker who used to do wainscoting and had a lot of experience and tools I lacked at the time for making it. Together, we used my designs and his expertise (teaching me the whole time) to make it reality.



This is a picture of the initial parts after getting them cut to size and shelf-gooves cut. Allen was able to show me some very cool techniques for how to use the router to achieve perfectly straight and evenly spaced lines.



Cabinet assembled with shelving installed.



Cabinet with door and shelving pulled out.



And fully assembled.



Afterwards I used a French cleat to hang it since the weight of this thing is quite significant fully loaded. The cleat can hold close to 200lbs!