This is another “after twenty plus years of putting it off” sort of project. Since we remodeled the kitchen and moved the laundry into this half-bath off the kitchen there has been a narrow shelf and cabinet unit from Target next to the washer and dryer. It was not a good cabinet, and one of it’s many problems was that the top shelves were open and the vibration of the washer and dryer would walk things off the shelves onto the floor or into the sink. This was sub-optimal, but we lived with it for more than twenty years. Well, no more, I have replaced these cabinets with the ones above.
Because we need to be able to get a plumber/appliance repair-person behind the washer and dryer the cabinet needs to be easily removable. I therefore designed it as three stacking cabinets. Also, because of the close quarters with the sink, the middle cabinet needs two shorter doors instead of one door like the top and bottom. I decided to use frameless cabinet construction out of 1/2” natural birch plywood with one internal fixed shelf dadoed into the sides and the top and bottom rabbeted to accept the sides. Each cabinet is 24 inches tall and 12 inches deep so that I could get all of the parts out of one half sheet of plywood. To make the stack the same height as the washer and dryer and to hide the cleat that keeps them from slipping off when stacked I added a 2 inch tall perimeter base that interlocks with a 3/4” cleat on the top of two of the cabinets. They have a 1/4” birch plywood back.
The doors are mortise and tenon 3/4” maple with 1/4” birch plywood panels.
I used concealed full overlay hinges.
I had sanded everything before assembly to 220 grit and then cleaned up any assembly issues with some spot sanding. I primed everything with Zinzer BINS Shellac Based Primer and then put on a coat of Benjamin Moore Acrylic Eggshell paint in Atrium White ( which we had from a previous home improvement ).
After unloading and disposing of the old cabinet, I installed the new ones and reloaded them. There is now more storage space and it all looks much nicer in the room.