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Design Your Own Kitchen Cabinets by Vicky Smith
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Kitchen cabinets found at most popular home improvement centers are made of inexpensive and low-grade material. Sure, they have design departments to help you plan out your cabinet arrangement, but unless you are independently wealthy - there is a limit on what you can buy. If you want to design your own cabinets and spend the money on upgrading to better materials and extras - then read on for some advice to get you started. Instructions as follows: Firstly, you need to do is plan your cabinets, plan your cabinets, and plan your cabinets - did you catch that you HAVE TO PLAN. You can not just start building cabinets. Designing and building kitchen cabinets takes a lot of time and consideration to do it right. If you are working with a new empty and open room, this helps, but most of us will be starting with a kitchen already full of cabinets - so we have to take all of the measurements available, and even draw a quick diagram of how the room is configured right now to help plan for the layout of utilities. Secondly, as a measurement guide, base cabinets are generally 24" deep and 36" tall (length varies). Wall cabinets are generally 12" deep, and 30-42" tall (length varies). When positioning wall cabinets above base cabinets, the minimum distance between the top of the countertop on the base cabinet and the bottom of the stone walls cabinet should be 18". If you are designing a kitchen island as well, you should try to keep at least 36"-48" inches of open space between the base cabinets and the kitchen island. When you design your own cabinets, you should keep these dimensions in mind to stay within building codes and functionality in the design. The dimension that you can change though is the overall length of your cabinets. This is a big advantage because stock cabinets vary in 3" increments. If you overall space need does not fit into a 3" scheme, then you can change the length of the cabinets to accommodate your space. Thirdly, custom Cabinet Design also allows you to really pay close attention to the finer details of your cabinets that are missed with stock cabinets. For example, when you design and create your own cabinets, you can butt them against the stone wall to avoid the need for filler strips, you can design the cabinet fronts to have only a single stile (face of the cabinet around the drawer openings) vs.. having a double wide stile that is common from screwing together two stock cabinets, and you can create a continuous toe-kick along the bottom of your cabinets. Fourthly, when considering material for your cabinet construction, you can build your cabinets from solid wood available from the lumber supplier you choose to work with. Common wood species used in cabinet construction are maple, cherry, hickory, pine, and birch. I recommend that you construct the cabinet frame, doors, and drawer fronts from solid wood at a minimum. If you are going to build your own cabinets though, I would use all solid wood and avoid melamine at all costs. Fifthly, any advice after this would be getting into construction details and would be too lengthy to include in this ehow. However, I have built kitchen cabinets in the past, and have found some excellent plans that you can buy online to really help you get started and get familiar with how to construct kitchen cabinets. The website that I use for wood plans is called Plans NOW, and they have an excellent set of Kitchen cabinet plans you can purchase for a very small fee. Visit the link below to get to their site, and then search for kitchen cabinets. In short, as a well-known business E-platform of promoting stone industry, we are the world leading portal website in stone industry. It mainly provides professional services of Internet application such as B to B E-commerce and network marketing for stone manufacturers and traders all over the world. If you want to consult us freely, you can also see patchwork or become a loyal follower of us by @ https://twitter.com/stonebtb.
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