Building Kitchen Cabinets

Build Your Own Kitchen Cabinets

Perhaps you're the novice woodworkers who wonders whether you should build your own kitchen cabinets. The simple answer should be a resounding "no" if you're not up to speed with saws, routers, sanders, and jigs--or if you don't have the money to buy additional materials to make up for mistakes you'll make in the shop. There are plenty of pre-made discount cabinets that you can customize with trim and hardware on your own until you build sufficient woodworking chops.

On the other hand, you may have the tools, experience, and resources to build your own kitchen cabinets, in which case let's examine the basic needs for getting started.

Tools and Materials for Building Your Own Kitchen Cabinets

Once you decide on your plans, you'll need to price and buy cabinet-grade wood for boxes, doors, and drawer fronts. You'll also need dowels, sandpaper, screws, glue, hinges, knobs, finishing nails, and stain. From the toolkit, you'll need to own or rent a router, table saw, jig saw, clamps, shaper, orbital sander, and a boring tool.

Discount Cabinets and Other Money Saving Concepts

Home-made, custom, or stock discount cabinets all begin with a basic box shape. And you can save time and costly errors by having a contractor or supplier deliver the drawer fronts and doors to fit your home-made boxes. There's a wealth of cabinetry books on the market with precise instructions for creating a complete set of kitchen cabinets. But none can prevent you from making poor measurements, wasting expensive wood materials, or botching the paint or stain. Only you can tell whether you can handle the project on your own.

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