Making kitchen furniture with your own hands

Recently, many firms for the production and assembly of corps and kitchen furniture have divorced. But you can easily make it yourself, while saving a lot of money, and the furniture will practically not differ from the factory. And its color, texture, configuration and functionality will depend on your imagination straight. Next, we give some tips on the manufacture of kitchen furniture with your own hands. First you need to buy the main materials for work: furniture facades for cabinet doors, laminated chipboard (Δ = 16 mm) and fiberboard (Δ = 5 mm), countertop – Postforming plate (δ = 32 mm) and, of course, furniture accessories such as loops for doors, furniture screed “Confirmat” and furniture edge. Furniture facades can be purchased in a special store to order. The facades must be bought in advance, as it may happen that you have already made the kitchen, and the facades were removed from production for its size. Next, prepare the tools: drill, roulette, kitchen knife, ordinary iron, sandpaper, drill and be sure to be an electrician. A screwdriver with a “bat” for a hexagonal key for assembling furniture is also useful. When planning the kitchen, it is necessary to determine the places for a gas stove, a refrigerator, washing and microwaves. Do not forget about the hood over the stove. Sketch the approximate plan of the future kitchen. Break approximately the rest of the space into cabinets. Further according to the table (there is in the store), select facades of the desired size. Keep in mind that in production they are made 3-4 mm shorter and already than the cabinets themselves, so that you do not touch the doors with the doors, other cabinets. Also, the facade in height is less than the full height of the cabinet, because the door is located from the floor at an altitude of 80-100 mm. After that, calculate the cabinet details. Consider the bottom of the cabinets, they need to subtract the thickness of the side walls from the width width. Before collecting cabinets, you will need to stick the edge with an iron. And after the edge has cooled, cut its remains with a knife at an angle of 45 degrees and draw the edge with sandpaper. The back wall is best made from laminated fiberboard. The tabletop of a standard size made of shaking wood boat Δ = 32 mm can be bought in a construction store. With the help of a jigsaw, a hole under the sink is cut out in it. After which the countertop is mounted on top of the lower lockers with self -tapping screws. At the final stage, facades are hung on cabinets using a special drill for furniture loops – Forsner drill. When drilling, it is necessary to control the depth of immersion of the drill so as not to pierce the facade through. As a result, the lower cabinets are installed close to each other, and the upper ones are hung on the wall using a dowel-gvo. If there is a need, then for reliability, adjacent lockers can be fastened with self -tapping screws with a length of 25 mm. DIY kitchen furniture is a process in which various design and functional ideas of your family, as well as a huge saving of the budget. Believe me, any guest in your house is unlikely to believe that you made the kitchen yourself. Admiration of work is the best reward for the master.