How To Build Kitchen Cabinets

Kitchen cabinets add value to a home along with adding a lot of useful storage space but they can be very pricey

. Nevertheless if you possess prior skill with woodworking you can make cabinets on your own and eliminate the price of hiring a professional; here"s how.

Required Tools

Table Saw/circular saw

A doweling jig or a horizontal boring tool

Mallet

Drill

Router

Clamps for gluing

Sandpaper

Required Materials

Cabinet grade plywood for carcass (frame)

Plywood for door, false front insert and kick plate face

1" x 6" oak for face frame

Dowels

Hinges

Knobs

Glue

Finishing nails (6d)

Self drilling screws

Drawer materials and slides (if needed)

Counter top materials

Instructions

The base for the cabinets ought to be 3 inches high and the size ought to be the same as the bottom of the cabinets minus the sides, front and back of the cabinets. Use the table saw or a circular saw to cut the plywood to the required size and nail it all together.

Use the cabinet grade plywood to make the floor of the cabinet and use a little glue and some finishing nails to join it to the base. Next glue and nail the sides of the cabinet to the base, using the clamps to keep them in position while you drive the nails. Make sure that the carcass is accurately squared. You can now install whatever shelving you plan to include.

When the carcass is finished move on to the face frame; cut the oak wood to the desired length and then decide where the dowel holes will go and set out the face frame and the stiles (vertical pieces) to make certain that everything fits correctly. Use the doweling jig or horizontal boring tool to drill the required holes for the dowels you are using. Put wood glue on the stiles, dowels and in the dowel holes and then place the dowels into their chosen holes using the mallet to seat them fully. Use the clamps to keep the assembly together until the glue dries and everything is dried in position.

Drill holes along the top, middle, bottom and sides of the face frame to hold it to the carcass. Apply glue to the edges of the plywood (the carcass) and the face frame and use clamps to keep the face frame in position. Make sure that the face frame is accurately lined up before tightening the clamps. Then nail 6d finishing nails into the pre-drilled holes to keep the face frame in place.

You can opt to buy ready-made doors or you can make them too. Just like the face frame use dowels, clamps and glue to put the doors together, however, for the doors you have to use the router to create a slot for the door insert. Glue, clamp and nail the drawers together as well and install the slides for the drawers and doors.

Install the door inserts and sand down all the sections of the cabinet and then install the doors and drawers. Fill in all nail holes with wood putty and apply whatever finishing touch you wish such as stain, varnish and polyurethane.

Put in the drawers, doors, knobs, handles, hinges and position the cabinet in place. Use a drill and the self drilling screws to secure the cabinets to the wall and finally, install the top of the cabinet and you are finished.

Tips and Warnings

Use a clamp to secure a ruler or other straight item onto the plywood when cutting to act as a guide.

Any height or width the counters are to be, make the frame about of an inch lower and narrower so that the cabinets are the designated size when the doors and counter tops are in place.

by: Madden Baines

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