Scrap, cutoffs, or extra pieces are often discarded as unusable or unneeded. Some get stockpiled while others get tossed. In this episode, I’ll show you what I built with just a few pieces of leftover hardwood flooring (bamboo in my case) and some 2×4 lumber. These items are likely to be the most common found… [Continue Reading]

In the final part of our Laundry Hamper series, we’ll assemble frames made from 1/2″ PVC. Mesh laundry bags will be hung inside the frames and attached to the doors using screw down self-adhesive zip tie mounts and zip ties. We’ll close up the back of the cabinet by nailing in 1/8″ masonite, cut with… [Continue Reading]

This 5th installment will deal exclusively with the doors; including fabrication, assembly, and mounting. The door frame will be a shaker style door made of 2.5″ wide solid pine boards. The flat panel will be composed of bead board wainscotting, the same used on the side panels of the cabinet. Door stops will be mounted… [Continue Reading]

Due to an unfortunate brainfart in Part 2, I’ll spend this entire episode assembling and installing a solid pine top over the existing plywood cabinet. I’ll start with 3 boards of solid pine, edge glue them together with biscuits, then attach it to the main cabinet using wood and screws. The knots in the boards… [Continue Reading]

We start this third installment with going over some of the mistakes I’ve made so far in this laundry hamper build and how I’ll go about fixing them. Then I’ll move on to cutting and attaching a framed, bead board, pine wainscoting on the sides of the cabinet. This will be the same bead board… [Continue Reading]

In this second episode, we continue our laundry hamper build with assembling the main cabinet, adding internal support ribs, cutting and assembling a face frame with pocket holes, then attaching it to the main cabinet. Products Featured in this video: Share G+ Pin Tweet Email

In this series, I’ll be building a 4-bay hamper.  I’m a little OCD when it comes to laundry.  I like to pre-separate and procrastinate so multiple large compartments work for me.  This is something I could not find anywhere commercially.  As they say, necessity is the mother of invention.  I’ve provided dimensioned drawings for this… [Continue Reading]