Tips Hanging Kitchen Cabinet Doors

Allow the cabinet doors to dry before you hang them up.

Tips hanging kitchen cabinet doors.

If you have been following me on instagram bentswoodworking you will know that i am currently building come cabinets for a kitchen. There s often more than just screws holding. Hang cabinets to dry between coats photo by brian wilder. Reinstall the cabinet doors.

If you paint kitchen cabinets with the doors still hanging on the cabinet boxes frames you re liable to miss edges and corners or get paint on the door pulls. Hanging cabinet doors on old cabinets with no assistance is not exactly the easiest task. Always consider hinge placement before installing hinges on any cabinet door. Using 1 inch brads fasten the toekick trim to the base cabinets.

I found myself needing at least one extra hand at each step one to hold the door steady one to press the hinges into place to keep the holes lined up and one to drill don t get me started on the contortion required for also photographing the process. John dee a perfectionist prefers to do one side at a time keeping the faces flat so they don t get runs. Be sure to cover any surface that you paint over. For an inset door adjust the hinges so door is flush with the face frame and so there s an even reveal gap around its perimeter.

10 kitchen cabinet tips removing the old cabinets. For overlay doors which cover the cabinet frame adjust the hinges so that the doors hang straight. But that s 48 hours of drying time per door one day per side. How to hang a cabinet door door hinge placement.

Most cabinet doors overlap the opening by 3 4 inch. Here is a video with tips on measuring cabinet openings finishing and hanging your doors and using hinge adjustment for final alignment of the doors. Lifting and holding upper cabinets with cabinet jacks and hold them with a cabinet claw. Painting cabinet doors is a trade off between perfection and speed.

If you painted the doors you may want to use a nail or other thin instrument to gently poke all of the screw holes to. And of course having all the right cabinet installation tools. If yours differ just make sure that the overlap. Remove the doors and drawers.

Using a cabinet hanging system like the eazy hang having the right cabinet installation screws that won t fall off your bit driver. Here s his method for painting both sides in a day. Don t take off the wall with the old cabinets.