Making your kitchen cabinet at home is truly an interesting job which
requires immense patience and skill. You should have a good carpenter at your
side if you are planning to do the task yourself. The biggest advantage of building kitchen cabinets at home is
that it reduces the costs considerably when compared to purchasing a new
cabinet. Another important advantage is that it helps you in making your own
design rather than simply go after the stereotypes that the market offers to
you.
You must therefore, measure the kitchen area carefully along with the
help of the professional you have hired. You then have to purchase wood which
is where the whole cabinet’s durability rests upon. Your aim, we suggest,
should be to buy quality wood. These can be bought fresh cut from the lumbers
or you may choose old wood from the second sales market. Many people purchase
unfinished cabinets from the stores at rock bottom price so as to save money
for better finishing.
You can start to cut the woods according to the sizes so that they
could be fixed together properly with wood glue. Your professional help would
know as to what to do and draw a rough sketch containing yours and your
spouse’s ideas and then try to incorporate the same in the overall design that
you must have already chosen for the purpose.
If you have not chosen then you should do so at the very commencement
of the work. This can be easily downloaded from the Internet or you may cut it
out from one of the home improvement magazines. Cutting, binding and assembling
of wood pieces takes quite a long time yet they must be done with immense
carefulness. This means there would be repeated measurements taken while building kitchen cabinets.
You must have sliders fitted so that the drawers open or slide open and
so also the hardware. Among the most important hardware are the door knobs,
handles, hinges and glass. The color of the wood must match with the hardware.
For instance the door knobs can be of ivory or glass and this can look stunning
with black or white cabinets. For antique cabinets brass handles and ornate
looking knobs can be really splendid to look at.
Your choice of paint or stain should be according to the quality of the
wood. It is all right to stain hard wood cabinets while soft wood would be
better off with a couple of thick coats of paints. This helps the soft wood
better protection from wetness that are there especially while cooking,
spillages and near and around the sink. If you are fully engrossed in building kitchen cabinets then you will
surely bring out quality product much to everyone’s astonishment.
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