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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.
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