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April 22, 2019 | by Nick

Record Cabinet | Free Plans

Build your own retro-inspired record cabinet to house your turntable and vinyl collection with our free plans!

I don’t think there’s a day that music isn’t flowing through our home for at least a part of the day.

Before kids, Alicia and I played music as background noise, but now it has become part of the fabric of our day. Maybe it’s because our daughter Zoe is such a music lover. She loves all music. We’ve caught her singing a little bit of every genre.

From Prince’s Purple Rain to Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire,  she loves it all. Throw in a little Taylor Swift, The Beatles, Spice Girls, Adele, and her favorite Disney soundtracks, and it shows how well-rounded her musical experience has been in four short years.

She’s also known to grab her microphone, best dress and turn our coffee table into her concert stage. One day she is Ariana Grande, the next a Spice Girl, the next Celine Dion, the next Judy Garland, and the next Madonna (I’m not even sure how she knows who Madonna is?).

Sometimes she’ll sing actual songs, but the best performances are when she makes up a story on the fly and turns it into a song! Seriously, the cutest and funniest thing ever.

Dancing usually goes hand-in-hand with the sound of music in our home. Our living room often becomes an impromptu dance floor where we bust out our best moves. 

Music is not just culturally important, music also affects the brain in great ways! Listening to upbeat music can improve your mood and lower stress. It can also help you feel more hopeful and be more productive and creative. And science has backed all this up with endless studies! Those are pretty good reasons to keep the tunes running, aren’t they?

Lately, there has been a renewed love for vinyl records. With the decline in CD sales over the past decade, the popularity of vinyl records has been gaining steadily. It’s also been amplified by the availability of more compact and sleek looking record players like these ones:

My father-in-law has quite an awesome collection of vinyl, and I wanted to show Zoe how music used to be played (you know, before we just asked our Smartphone or Smartspeaker to play the song we want).

I love the look of vinyl records being displayed. The covers are such works of art. So, I set out to design a record cabinet that would offer a secure location for the record player and lots of storage for the records. I wanted it to look a little bit retro to give it a nostalgic feel, but that would still look good in a modern home.

I’m really happy about the way it turned out. It was such a simple and quick build since only plywood was used for the entire piece. The exposed, natural, layered edges of the plywood added great character to this piece.

The lighter stain and satin finish fit perfectly with the feel of this piece. I also drilled a few holes and filled them with some epoxy and pigment, just to give it a little extra visual interest, but this is totally optional.

I also added this simple leather pull that I made using leather from our local craft store, and some brass hardware I picked up at the local home improvement store.

If you want to give these plans a try, you can find them following the link below on Kreg’s DIY plans site. And please let us know if you make your own record cabinet, we would love to see it! I’m sure you’ll find plenty of other DIY plans to put on your to-do list there as well!

This post was sponsored by Kreg. All opinions and thoughts are my own, see our full disclosure policy here.

 

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Comments

  1. Katarina - Sukhirugs.com says

    April 22, 2019 at 11:01 am

    Love how your records cabinet turned out to be and how simple it is to make. The leather pull makes it unique and even more beautiful and the light stain and satin finish is the key for that amazing retro vibe. Thanks for sharing this project, I love it!

    Reply
    • Alicia says

      April 23, 2019 at 8:18 pm

      So glad you like it Katarina! It’s all in the details, right! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Colleen says

    April 30, 2019 at 5:49 am

    Hi Alicia! Tell your hubby he did an excellent job with the record cabinet. I think my son would be interested in making this, but I went to the site you said to, and couldn’t find it. What category is it under? Is it called a record cabinet? Anyways..could not see it. Hope you can direct me. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Alicia says

      April 30, 2019 at 9:40 am

      Hi Colleen, I’m so glad you’re son wants to make one for himself! He will be able to find the post right on the homepage, or by searching “record cabinet”. Please let me know if you’re still having trouble finding it. 🙂

      Reply
  3. Katie Rowney says

    February 1, 2021 at 6:03 am

    Love this and am going to give it a go. Can I ask how many records it can store? And can you fit them in the cupboard part also?

    Reply
    • Nick says

      February 17, 2021 at 11:24 am

      Hi Katie,

      We haven’t maxed it out, but this should fit well over a hundred records. And, yes you can fit some in the cupboard part as well.

      Reply

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