Remodeling idea, recycle old kitchen cabinets in the garage

Recycling old kitchen cabinets in the Garage, as first seen on Millennial Living
When we did a major kitchen remodeling of our home, we asked our contractor to carefully remove all of the existing base and wall cabinets. Unfortunately some cabinets were severely damaged, but the majority were removed successfully.
We decided to use the old kitchen cabinets in the garage. All we wanted was storage for tools and equipment. We removed the paint, sanded them and then primed and repainted them white. We had the following cabinets to work with:
1) two 48 inch based cabinets and
2) and about eight wall cabinets spanning 10 feet.
Old kitchen cabinets find new use in garage.
We could not use the wall cabinets on the wall as the venting and ceiling in the garage were too low. Also we needed a narrow wall cabinet because of space limitations. A typical base cabinet would have prevented us from using the right side of the garage for the car. Full Story
Written by larrylarr on June 13th, 2007 with no comments.
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