Just about every job I work on has one or two odd cabinets that aren't quite what your typical kitchen-and-bath cabinetshop is used to dealing with. What I call "off-angle cabinets" are a great example. Sometimes you find them tucked under a stairway, but they are also common in second stories with sloping ceilings. The room shown here was an unfinished bonus room that the owners wanted to turn into a play and study room for two young boys, and I had to make two off-angle cabinets to fit against the slope of the gable roof. I developed a method to build these odd-shaped cabinets so they fit every time. It all starts with the back; I scribe-fit a piece of 1/4-in. plywood that will become the cabinet back, but first I use it as a template to build the cabinet. The face frame exactly matches the template, but the cabinet box doesn't. Instead, when I draw the layout on the template, I shift the lines for the sides close to the wall and ceiling in about 1/4 in. That leaves 1/4 in. of face frame overhanging the cabinet box to be scribed to fit the wall and ceiling.
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