Shelving & StorageRSS

Get your home and shop organized with step-by-step plans for shelving and storage projects from the editors and contributors to Popular Woodworking Magazine. You’ll find projects in a wide range of styles: period, Arts & Crafts, contemporary, Shaker and more.You’ll find woodworking plans for bookcases and bookshelves, hanging wall shelves and cabinets, shop and garage storage, small storage ideas, television stands and more. And, you’ll learn the essential woodworking techniques you need to build them right.

Behind the left door are five 3/4"-thick adjustable solid-wood shelves, perfect for heavier games and books. Behind the right door are 10 1/4"-tempered Masonite shelves, perfect for storing letterhead, envelopes, CDs and other home-office related items.

Shaker Storage Cabinet

With two different shelving systems, this face-frame cabinet stores light or heavy stuff. Just look at these drawings, techniques and plans to see for yourself. Read more »

Byrdcliffe Cabinet

The furniture built by the Byrdcliffe Arts & Crafts Colony in the early 20th century is rare, unusual and expensive. Luckily, it’s easy to build at home. Read more »

Best Foot Forward: The front feet are different than the back feet and are cut to allow the grain to run diagonally from the corner of the base area. In addition, the front feet are radius cut on the inside. Attach the feet first, then cut the radius to shape to ease glue up.

Shaker Blanket Chest

I was flipping through a copy of The Magazine Antiques one afternoon when I noticed an attractive blanket chest in an advertisement for an antiques dealer in New York. After a bit of research, this is what I came up with. Read more »

Tansu Chest

This Japanese-style Tansu chest can be used in several different configurations to fit your lifestyle. No matter how you stack it, it stores a lot of items, as we show you with this free project.. Read more »

With the rails cut to size, the first step is to define the shoulders of the tenon. With your rip fence set to cut 1-1/4" (don't forget the blade's thickness), cut 1/4" deep on the two wide faces for the rails, and on one edge of the rail. On the final edge, reset the fence to cut 1" and make the cut. This is the haunched part of the joint and will be the outside edge of the door.

Classic Six-Legged Huntboard

My dad has been making this six-legged huntboard for a number of years. It has always sold well. Here’s your chance to make it at a price well below retail. Read more »

Spice Cabinet

Though members of your family aren’t likely to store spices in a cabinet like this, you can bet that it will be an oft-requested item for you to build. Read more »