How Do You Build a MDF Wardrobe?

Building an MDF wardrobe is well within reach for a confident home woodworker, provided the setting out is done before any panel is cut. This guide works through the sequence a joiner would follow: planning depth and door widths around the garments you actually own, choosing between standard and moisture resistant board, finding the highest point of the floor and setting level and plumb reference lines, then cutting and joining an 18mm carcass with glue and confirmat screws, dowels or pocket holes. It explains how to check the frame for square using diagonal measurements, how to scribe filler strips to an out of true wall, where to place rails and adjustable shelves, and why sealing the cut edges twice is what separates a crisp painted finish from a fuzzy one. Hinge selection, reveal adjustment and the three faults that spoil most home built units are covered too, along with when a ready made unit is the better decision....