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Cabinets - Index
Bathroom Vanities
In many cases the bathroom vanity and sister cabinets are the focal point of a bathroom. Besides providing an area to perform self grooming, the bathroom vanity provides a place to house the sink or basin and provides space for storage.
Build Your Own Kitchen Cabinets & Vanities
If you have basic wood working skills, can draw and calculate a layout sketch and some patience, you can save thousands of dollars by making your own kitchen cabinets or bathroom vanities.
Cabinet Care, Repair & Maintenance
New kitchen cabinets are one of the largest investments that a homeowner can make. Yet very few people look after their kitchen cabinets in a proper manner. Kitchen cabinets are made in the same manner as furniture and the quality and construction levels mimic the materials and joinery.
Doweling In Cabinets
When joining pieces of wood or lumber together to make a frame, as one would find in cabinets, one of the most common methods to secure the joint or connection is to use dowel pins.
Face-Frame Versus Frameless (Euro Box/Style) Cabinets
Some cabinets are built with a face-frame that hides and protects the edges of the cabinet sides and others are frameless (sometimes referred to as Euro box or Euro style cabinets), constructed using a thin veneer or other covering to hide the side edges.
Glass Doors For Kitchen Cabinets
If you are considering updating your kitchen cabinets, then you may wish to consider replacing some or all of the kitchen cabinet doors with glass. Replacement kitchen cabinet doors with glass can be purchased from a number of suppliers. However, if you are at a reasonable level of woodwork joinery, they are easily made in a home workshop.
Hinges
When building or refurbishing your own kitchen cabinets or bathroom vanities, it is important to consider what type of hinges you are going to use. The hinges can provide aesthetic value to the cabinetry and in the same manner, nicely built cabinets or vanities that have hinges that do not match will make an excellent cabinet project bad.
Kitchen Cabinets
Kitchen cabinets comes in a vast variety of materials and finishes. Cabinets can be purchased as a DIY assembly, preassembled (standard sizes) and custom manufactured.
Kitchen Cabinet Budget
The cabinets that you choose for your kitchen remodel can easily amount to 60% of the total amount spent on the project.
Kitchen Islands
Kitchen island counters can provide much needed storage space in cabinets and drawers as well as adding to the working counter top area within a kitchen.
Knobs, Handles, Hinges - Cabinet
Positioning Cabinet Knobs & Pulls
If a homeowner wants to create a new look and add some additional conveniences in their kitchen without the expense of a total kitchen remodel they can consider changing their cabinet hardware.
Lighting - Under Cabinet
If you are considering installing linear or strip lighting under cabinets, in a ceiling cove, under a shelf or other accent lighting inside or outside your home, you have a number of choices.
Painting Kitchen Cabinets
Many homeowners believe that painting kitchen cabinets are the poor mans method of performing a kitchen remodeling project. This couldn't be farther from the truth! As with most home improvement projects, the difference between a true quality finished project and one that is sub-standard is the prep work, tools and materials used.
Repairing Loose Cabinet Hinges
Over time the screws used to hold cabinet hinges in position can become loose. Loose cabinet hinge screws create sagging doors and doors that do not close properly. The proper fix to this problem is relatively easy.