Thread: plans/designs/ideas for storage cupboards

Hi All

After completing a pergola and deck, its time to move onto the next project - increasing storage space in my house.

My garage is 1.5 times the width of your average single garage, so with that extra width, i want to put some cupboards along the side wall. The wall is between the garage and the house - it is best described as your average internal wall - plastered both sides, timber frame in the middle. it has a door at one end (into the house) and a door beside it leading out to the yard (this door is on the rear garage wall, and rests against the side wall (where i plan on putting the cupboards) when the door is open. all that said - the cupboards wont be able to go from one end of the wall to the other, but i want them to go from the door into the house, all the way along the wall to where the outside door swings (see attached pic - the proposed cupboards are in red).

basically i want them to look built in, so i figure using some cheap non structural pine from the local bunnings i need to make some framework, screw that to the existing wall (through the plaster?) and then plaster up the framework. add some architraves and some doors (door jambs?) and some shelving inside the cupboards and then a coat of paint. sounds simple.

id like the cupboards to go to ceiling, however the top shelves (the ones above the doors) would be doorless.

but i have no idea how to go about all of this! if anyone would like to offer advice and ideas on how to make up the framework etc, it would be most appreciated.

Cheers, and thanks
kayno