How to Build Your Own Kitchen Cabinets: A 6 Part Series

By Cheri Watkins
RefacingCabinet.com Columnist

Welcome to our six-part series on how to build your own kitchen cabinets.  In this series, you'll learn everything from how to design the right kitchen cabinets to match your renovation plans to finishing, assembling, and installing those dazzling new kitchen cabinets.

Each of the articles in this series covers a different and important topic on custom kitchen cabinet installation.  Be sure to read them all as you plan to renovate and upgrade your kitchen.

Part 1: How to Build Your Own Kitchen Cabinets

Kitchen renovations are frequently touted by appraisers, homeowners, and magazines, as among the best returns on investment for a home improvement. Focusing on what we do best, Refacingcabinet.com helps you save money and customize your kitchen.  In Part 1 we discuss designing the right kitchen cabinet.

Part 2: Choosing Materials for Building Kitchen Cabinets

Whether or not you are an experienced woodworker, learning how to build your own kitchen cabinets is easier than you might imagine. Think of kitchen cabinets as well-constructed boxes with doors. To build these boxes, you will first need certain tools.

Part 3: Face Frame or Frameless Kitchen Cabinets

Building your own kitchen cabinets can be easy, if you think of each one as a large box with doors. The two most common types of kitchen cabinets are faceless and face frame.

Part 4: Finishing Your Kitchen Cabinets

Getting an even finish over every inch, nook, and cranny of wood is easier prior to assembly. Just remember to keep your labeling system visible, so you know which piece goes where, when it is time to assemble your kitchen cabinets.

Part 5: Assembling Your Custom Built Kitchen Cabinets

The final two steps to building your own kitchen cabinets can be done within one day's time: Assembly and installation of the kitchen cabinet carcases.

Part 6: Installing Your Custom Built Kitchen Cabinets

To finish this kitchen renovation, locate every lump and sag in your kitchen. Make a note of these on your kitchen renovation designs. Then, add up the total measurements of all kitchen cabinets, and draw a straight line on the wall where they will be installed.

 

About The Author

Cheri Renee began her professional writing career at Greenspun Media Group's Showbiz Weekly magazine (now LVM). Several years later, she discovered an interest in interior design and home improvement, while on assignment for GMG's H&D magazine. Cheri has consulted as an English language arts editor for McGraw-Hill Education, and a biomedical research copyeditor for faculty at UNLV, and Sunrise Children's Heart Center. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from Augusta State University and an M.S.T. in Adolescent English Education from Fordham University.