A Quick Guide To Building Kitchen Cabinets
Building kitchen cabinets is within the reach of most people, especially if they are of a standard size. Even though carcasses vary in size, they are all essentially built in exactly the same way, so once you have put the first couple together the rest should be a lot easier to manage.
But supposing your kitchen isn't a regular square or rectangle shape? What if you have a sloping roof? An awkward recess? Or simply an irregular wall that needs to be hidden behind your kitchen cabinets?
In this case, building kitchen cabinets might not be as easy as you think. Proper preparation is required here to make sure the finished kitchen looks as good as it should. Here are some tips for making your ideal kitchen come true.
Be Versatile With Standard Carcasses
Building kitchen cabinets of an irregular shape needn't be as hard as you think. In fact, in some cases - such as the above example of the irregular walls - you might not need to butcher regular size cabinets at all.
Find out if the kitchen range you are considering has wall cabinets that are the same height as floor cabinets. If it does, simply buy a wall cabinet in place of a floor cabinet. They are not as deep and will save you the trouble of trying to cut an awkward shape in the back of your floor cabinet.
Building kitchen cabinets that need to go under a sloping roof can be done in two ways. The easiest option is to buy several different heights of cabinet, so that the cabinets are staggered in height. Attractive boxes can be bought to fit in the gaps, or alternatively you can use the space for storing cookery books.
Secondly, and depending on what style door you choose, you can cut down both the door and the cabinet, so as to allow a perfect fit between the sloping roof and the cabinet itself. Make sure the door won't scrape against the wall when it's fitted.
When you are building kitchen cabinets, it's important to fit all the carcasses in place first, before you fit the doors or interiors. This is the quickest and easiest way to install any kitchen, and it means your doors will stay wrapped up and safely stored away while the main building work is done.
Once you hang the doors and get them level, you can then stand back to admire your new kitchen.
