If you’ve dreamed of building a kitchen full of cabinets, stop dreaming and start building. Here’s what you need to know to get custom results for half what stock cabinets cost.
For many home woodworkers,outfitting a kitchen with handcrafted cabinets is the dream project. Who hasn’t looked at stock cabinets built with particleboard, hotmelt glue and staples and thought, “I could build something a whole lot better than this for half the money.”
And they’re right. By building your own cabinets, you can upgrade materials and construction methods. You’re also not locked into “stock” sizes. The style, look, finish, and features are completely up to you. If you think about it, cabinets are just a bunch of boxes. The only real challenge is the size of such a project. And that’s manageable as long as you know where to get started and how to proceed.
On this site, we’ll walk you through how we built these cabinets and how they compare with stock cabinets purchased from a home center. And hopefully inspire you to consider building your own.
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 Installing kitchen cabinets is another big step after cabinets have been transported to your house.While the actual installation of the Kitchen Cabinets isn't all that hard, the critical first step is measuring and marking out where the cabinets will go. By placing layout markings on the walls and floors, it will not only help you with kitchen cabinet placement and stud locations, but it will also help you locate where adjustments and shims will be required.
You have the option of using a piece of 1' x 3' lumber for the installation or building a frame to support the cabinets. This can be made out of 2' x 4's and should be tall enough to support the bottom of your wall cabinets. If you plan on installing more than one kitchen, then I would suggest the frame, but a piece of lumber will do just fine if this is a one time event. In either case, you will need another set of hands to help with the installation.
In this case we bought (RTA) Ready-To-Assemble Kitchen Cabinets from RTA Kitchen & Bathroom Cabinet Store. Now the kitchen cabinets are assembled, we are ready to start marking out our layout lines. Some people start with the base cabinets, but we are going to start with the wall cabinets first. There is no right or wrong way to start, I just prefer to start with the upper cabinets first.
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Kitchen Cabinet Repaint,the ideal process- Clean with ammonia/water solution
- Let dry
- Sand with 180,This is to "rough up" the surface, not sand it off
- Wipe with Tack Cloth
- Prime with a white-pigmented shellac based primer*(Use a disposable brush and take precautions,Plenty of fresh air and a respirator are good ideas when working with shellac),Let dry
- Sand with 180,This is a light sanding to smooth out the shellac a bit,Wipe with tack cloth
- Paint first coat, using a good quality oil-based enamel, or a quality waterborne enamel, using the a good quality proper type brush (oil/water-based prefer different kinds of brushes),Let dry over night
- Lightly sand with 220,Wipe with tack cloth
- Second coat quality oil based enamel, or a quality waterborne enamel, also with a proper brush
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No matter how elegant, warm, homey or classic the kitchen cabinets may look, they'll flunk the critical homeowner evaluation if they don't function well, according to industry experts. "We think organization in kitchen cabinets is even more important to the homeowner than beauty," says Dave Germond, vice president of sales and marketing for Master Brand/HomeCrest Cabinetry in Goshen, Ind. Anything that makes it easier to organize a kitchen is going to push the home owner's hot buttons, Dave maintains. His sentiments are enthusiatically echoed by Jim Potthast, communications manager for Masco/Merillat Industries LLC, Middlefield, Ohio. Says Jim, "Features that help organize a kitchen are always popular." |
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Building Kitchen Cabinets
