This one was about as big as my hand and scared the living daylights out of me. We don't often get dangerous creatures of any kind in New Zealand, but we did import these huge spiders from Aussie. It started raining while I was working on it outside, so I chucked the tarp off the woodpile over it. This made the door panels just a tad on the small side.) (Unfortunately I didn't take the width of the outer decorative frame into account. (Again, thank God for metric! I honestly don't know how Americans can handle bloody imperial!) Since I like to do things cheaply, I also did the same for the sheet of ply and worked out that with this size, I could get the sides and the doors out of the same piece of ply. I divided all the measurements by 100 and drew them down on paper to check scale and how it would all look. We went with the height of a door, because it would look like it fit nicely in any house. It also meant the cupboard could fit behind a strangely placed door in the corner of our dining room. It was a good size for my wife's overlocker. Our measurements were based on the size of the stuff we wanted to put in it and because we use metric in New Zealand, I went with 400mm by 1m. If you don't have a router, I'm sure that you could achieve the same affect by setting a skill saw at 45 degrees and having the blade hanging down only slightly more than the width of the blade. This was one great way to make $40 ply look like $80 ply. Now it looks kinda like tongue and groove. So I clamped a straight edge to the ply and ran the router down it with a v bit. The heavy duty stuff!! Whoop whoop!! My wife and I like the look of tongue and groove timber with a light whitewash over it. I bought some ply from the store and found some more in a skip bin outside a construction site.
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