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I’ve been laborious at work on my studio the previous few days, and I’m lastly engaged on the cupboard doorways and drawer fronts for all the cupboards. That is my first time utilizing IKEA cupboards, and since I can’t depart nicely sufficient alone, I’m sanding all of them down, including trim, and priming and portray them. And whereas beginning with IKEA cupboard doorways and drawer fronts will save me quite a lot of time, this complete course of is reminding me of all of the instances I made my very own cupboard doorways and drawer fronts from scratch.
I’ve by no means made something like Shaker doorways the “correct” method, however I’ve my very own easy go-to technique for making cupboard doorways and drawer fronts that at all times produces a end result that I’m happy with.
Making your personal cupboard doorways and drawer fronts is among the finest methods to replace an outdated kitchen or toilet if the cupboard bins are nonetheless in good condition and also you’re not altering the structure of the room. And when you’ve received that down, and in case you can construct a easy field, you may then construct your personal cupboards or items of furnishings from scratch.
1. Our Condominium Hallway Toilet
The very first time I made my very own cupboard doorways and drawer fronts was for our tiny apartment hallway toilet. I labored on that rest room simply over ten years in the past, in March 2013.
You’ll be able to see how I made these cupboards doorways right here, and see the entire toilet earlier than and after right here. It’s laborious to imagine that was over a decade go! And but, that darkish teal that I used on the partitions in that rest room (Behr Mythic Forest) is similar colour I’ve on our music room bookcases and doorways and the cupboards in our walk-in pantry at this time. 😀 Some issues by no means change, like my love for teal. Anyway…
I actually had no thought what I used to be doing on the time. I solely had a number of fundamental instruments (a $99 nail gun and compressor set, a really fundamental miter noticed, and so forth.) on the time, so I knew that I couldn’t make “correct” cupboard doorways that required using a router or desk noticed. As a substitute, I’d need to depend on my fundamental instruments and plenty of trim to make some fairly (and fundamental) cupboard doorways.
They could have been fundamental, however I used to be more than happy with how they turned out. They have been an enormous improve from the unique doorways.
Sadly, ten years in the past, I didn’t notice how straightforward it’s to make use of a Kreg Hinge Jig to drill the proper holes for hidden cupboard door hinges. That will have made these new DIY cupboard doorways look even higher.
2. Our Hallway Cupboard
When I constructed the cupboard in our hallway, I undoubtedly had acquired extra instruments than I had once we lived within the tiny apartment. However I nonetheless didn’t have the instruments required to make one thing like a Shaker door (which is de facto not my type anyway), so I went again to my apartment toilet days and used that very same thought.
I did make some adjustments on these cupboards doorways and drawer fronts, like including extra trim, and utilizing the Kreg Hinge Jig in order that the hinges on the cupboard doorways wouldn’t present. Simply that one change alone actually took these doorways up a notch from my unique apartment toilet cupboard doorways with the uncovered hinges.
3. Our Stroll-In Pantry Cupboards
Our walk-in pantry was the primary time I had ever constructed a full room of cupboards from scratch. And as soon as once more, when it got here time to do the doorways and drawer fronts, I went again to my outdated trusted (and really straightforward) type of cupboard doorways and drawer fronts.
Are you sensing a theme right here? 😀 Principally, in all my years of DIYing and reworking, I’ve by no means made a correct Shaker door or some other sort of door or drawer entrance that requires desk saws or routers or something like that. Only a round noticed, a miter noticed, and a brad nailer is all I’ve ever used to make cupboard doorways and drawer fronts. Properly, these plus a Kreg Hinge Jig. And I’ve been happy with them each time!
I like that they’ve somewhat little bit of visible curiosity with the trim, however they’re not overly fussy. They’re the proper mix of straightforward and chic. However most of all, they’re simply straightforward to make, and don’t break the bank.
The 4 white drawers within the pantry are a special type, however nonetheless quite simple. These drawer fronts are simply stable items of oak lumber lower to dimension with skinny oak trim connected to the face across the edges. Quite simple. You’ll be able to see extra of the earlier than and after of our walk-in pantry right here.
4. My Mother’s Kitchen Cupboards
At the start of 2020, my mother and I gave her kitchen a reasonably in depth makeover. She didn’t wish to change the structure of her kitchen in any respect, and her cupboard bins have been in nice form. She simply needed to replace the doorways and drawer fronts.
So we made quite simple plywood slab doorways with the sides completed off with edge banding, after which a little bit of trim inset on the faces of the doorways. What she ended up with was easy but elegant, and as soon as once more, didn’t require any fancy instruments.
And these new doorways and drawer fronts have been an ideal replace from the quintessential skinny Nineteen Sixties cupboard doorways with the routed design on entrance that she began out with.
It truly is superb what somewhat little bit of trim can do. And in case you’ve been round right here for lengthy, you understand how a lot I like trim! 😀 You’ll be able to see extra of my mother’s kitchen makeover right here.
5. Our Grasp Toilet Cupboard
When it got here time to construct the vanities and storage cupboard for our grasp toilet transform, I made a decision to alter issues up a bit. As a substitute of utilizing my tried and true cupboard door and drawer entrance technique, I made drawer fronts that have been a bit extra concerned. And this time, they did require using a desk noticed (or I may have used a router) to make a body for every drawer.
This was additionally my first time to construct cupboards out of good wooden (walnut) that wasn’t going to be primed and painted. That meant that every thing needed to be extra exact as a result of I wouldn’t be capable of cheat and conceal my errors with wooden filler and caulk earlier than priming and portray. I like these firsts that stretch my DIY skills only a bit extra. Even after 30+ years of DIYing, I’m nonetheless studying.
You’ll be able to see how I made these drawer fronts right here, and you may see the entire toilet earlier than and after right here.
So after three many years of DIYing, I’ve nonetheless by no means made fancy cupboard doorways that require fancy instruments. And you recognize what? I in all probability by no means will. I’m fairly proud of my easy strategies that I exploit, so why repair one thing that isn’t damaged? 😀 So in case you’re needing new cupboard doorways and drawer fronts, however shopping for new isn’t an choice, and making fancy ones that require a lot of instruments appears overwhelming to you, simply follow one thing easy that requires fundamental instruments. You’ll be able to rework the look of your kitchen or toilet with new cupboard doorways and drawer fronts which might be quite simple to make.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You’ll be able to study extra about me right here.
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