How to Build a Kitchen Cabinet

Kitchen cabinets not only give a neat look to your kitchen, but also enhance its beauty. Furthermore, they provide you lots of storage space where you can arrange all your jars, cooking utensils, cutlery, and other items. A well-made kitchen cabinet will also keep all the intruders like lizards, cockroaches and pests away from your kitchen.

All kinds of readymade kitchen cabinets are easily available. However, they typically bear an exorbitant price tag. It’s not very difficult to build kitchen cabinets in your home. All you need is building material and the right set of tools. Here is a stepwise procedure of how to build a kitchen cabinet.

• The tools and materials required to build a cabinet for your kitchen are 1x6 lumber, ½-inch plywood, wood glue, nails, clamps, screws, hinges, knobs, table saw, drill, jigsaw router, sandpaper, hammer and screwdriver.
• The first thing that you need to do is to select a design for the cabinets. The design should match with the overall décor of your kitchen, and it should be easy to create too. Home-improvement books, lifestyle magazines and internet are good resources of cabinet designs.
• In the next step, take the measurement of the location where the cabinet would be installed. As per the measurements, cut ½-inch plywood into pieces that would form the top, sides, back and bottom of the cabinet.
• Join the frame pieces together with the help of nails. For additional strength, use wood glue, and when the glue dries up, install clamps. Always drill hole and then insert the screws. This will prevent the wood from chipping.
• Once, you have created the basic structure of the cabinet, you need to make the face frame where the doors of the kitchen cabinet would be attached. Cut 1x6 lumber into four pieces and attach these pieces on the frame of the cabinet. Drill holes first, and then fasten the pieces with screws or nails. Plug in all the screw holes.
• An important aspect of the cabinet doors is that they should have an over hang of ¾ to ¼ so that they can open effortlessly. Fix the door on the face frame with the help of hinges. Also fix the knob on the door.
• Sand the cabinet to give it a smooth finish. Then apply first coat of stain; allow it to dry. Thereafter, apply the second coat of polyurethane finish. When the cabinets are completely dry, they have to be attached to the studs. Use shims and levels to fix the cabinet properly, and then screw it to the studs. With this, the task comes to a remarkable end, that is, your kitchen cabinets have been finally made and installed.