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Rolling Laundry Cart

This rolling laundry cart is perfect for keeping essential laundry items close by while doing your laundry!

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Difficulty
Easy
Time
2.3–4 hours
Cost
$$

About this build

This rolling laundry cart is perfect for keeping essential laundry items close by while doing your laundry! If you have trouble reaching the shelf above your machines or just want easier access, this laundry cart is perfect for fitting between your laundry machines.

Tools

Essential

  • Drill / Driver
  • Miter Saw
  • Pocket Hole Jig
  • Random Orbit Sander
  • Table Saw

Optional / nice to have

  • Bar / Pipe Clamps

Materials

ItemQty
Boards, 8'x1"x8"2 board
2" Rubber Casters4 each
Drawer Pull of your choice1 each
Wood Glue1 each
Stain1 each
Sealant1 each

Overall cost: $$. Lumber prices vary by region, species, and season, so we give a band rather than a figure we would only be pretending to know.

Cut list

PartQtyT × W × L
Front and Back23/4" × 7" × 24"
Shelves33/4" × 7" × 26"
Trim61/4" × 1/4" × 26"

What to buy

Buy 4 boards at 8 ft.

3/4" × 7"

2 boards

1/4" × 1/4"

2 boards

Assumes 8 ft stock, a 1/8" saw kerf, and buying each part at its own width. Change the board size or kerf on the full board plan →

Start building →

Instructions

  1. 1Attach Bottom Shelf

    Drill pocket holes in the short ends of each of the shelves. Attach one shelf to the ends of the front and back flush with the bottom edge.

    Rolling Laundry Cart — step photo 9
  2. 2Attach Shelves

    Attach the other two shelves the same way with 11" of space in between.

    Rolling Laundry Cart — step photo 10
  3. 3Attach Trim

    Attach the trim pieces on the outside edge of the top of each shelf using wood glue and clamps.

    Rolling Laundry Cart — step photo 11
  4. 4Attach Casters

    Attach the casters onto the underside of the bottom shelf. We attached ours to the end.

    Rolling Laundry Cart — step photo 12
  5. 5Attach Handle

    Attach the handle approximately 5" down from the top of the front.

    Rolling Laundry Cart — step photo 13
  6. 6Enjoy!

    Enjoy your handiwork and tag @CharlestonCrafted on Instagram with a picture!

    Rolling Laundry Cart — step photo 14

Tags

  • Hampers
  • Beginner

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