5 Storage Cubes – Useful Storage Cubes Home Décor

These easy to make storage cubes will compliment any look in any room of your home.

To make the cubes you can use any timber, these cubes were made using MDF.

We used 16mm MDF however you can use another thickness down to 10mm. Any thinner than
10mm will not allow you to screw them together sufficiently to give the cube strength.

These cubes were designed to be able to stand alone or be used in groups. The thinner the material
is will reduce the cubes ability to stand alone.

The MDF board we used came in a sheet 2750mm x 1830mm x 16mm. All the calculations shown on
the schedule are for a sheet with the above dimensions. If your sheets are different dimensions you
will have to re-work the marking out schedule to the size of your sheet or board.

We have provided cutting sheets for three different sizes. Hopefully you will find one that will suit
what you can find at your local hardware or timber supplier.

We used MDF as we wanted to paint some of them, others were stained, and some were polished
with standard black boot polish. As can be seen in the photographs we had some great different
looks.

What you will need:

 1 x sheet of MDF board 16mm or Marine Ply or the board of your choice

Consumables:

 Straight shanked screws – Spax

 White cold wood glue
 Sand paper 120 grit

Tools Required:

 Cross cut hand saw

 Yankee screw driver
 Brace or hand drill
 Drill bits
 F-clamps or T-bar clamps
 A carpenter’s pencil
 A tape measure
 A straight edge
 Sanding block

Method:

NOTE: The sketches are not to scale.

If your board is of the same dimensions or similar, you can use the schedule to mark off your cube
pieces.

Using the straight edge clamp, it across the board and cut the width first with the cross-cut saw.
Cutting the width first make the pieces you are working with smaller quicker. If you cut the length
first it will prove to be more difficult.
The dimensions given are to make the cubes square, when butting the ends together. However, you
can change the sizes anyway you wish if your desire is to have slightly off square cubes then you can
cut all the pieces 450mm x 450mm.

Once you have all the pieces cut, using a hand saw this will be a few hours work and is quite a
workout.

Mark off the ends of the boards as per the attached sketch for the screws and drill the holes in the
side pieces. With MDF drilling the holes before putting in the screws will help to prevent splitting.

However, MDF does split and to further prevent this from happening ensure your screws are straight
shank and not tapered. You can also clamp the work where the screws are going to be inserted, the
clamp will assist to keep the MDF from splitting. See this helpful site:
http://woodworkingtips.com/etips/etip090800sn.html

Apply a thin line of white cold wood glue to the edge of the top and bottom pieces. Aligned the fisrt
side piece and screw in the screws and wipe off any excess glue. Do the same for the other side.

You now have a cube, check it for squareness and clamp if required to keep it square.

If you are using the schedule you will note that 2 of the cubes have no shelving or dividers. If you
have a larger board or leftover MDF from another project you can use this for the two empty cubes.
An open cube could be useful for storing rolled up towels or any number of other things.

For the cubes that have shelves, you can now install them.

The pieces in the sketches are numbered according to the cutting schedule.

Mark off and pre-drill the holes according to the sketches, this will prevent splitting once the screws
are inserted.

Enjoy making these simple cubes, you can resize them to suit your needs.

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