Kitchen making: exclusive DIY furniture

If you make a kitchen yourself – you save at least half the amount that you would spend in the production of custom-made furniture You can make a kitchen exactly like a factory sample, repeating the same design using similar materials. But what if you show more interest, attention to this task, look through more than one magazine on interior fashion and style, finding your own unique version? This is especially true for those who are not going to furnish the entire kitchen from scratch, but only want to supplement it with new furniture that cannot be bought in the store..

For beginners, it will be a feasible job to make such kitchen items as a dining table, whatnots, shelves, sideboards, facades and shelves. Well, then, having mastered this, you can take on a whole headset.

Making a kitchen with your own hands: how to cut parts

You can start the review from this traditional and sometimes the most problematic point. Because the design is determined immediately, with the material too, assembling the structure is also not so difficult, but cutting the material into parts is not always easy.

How to cut kitchen parts:

• Option 1. You take the drawing and material (for example, MDF) to a company that provides material cutting services. Usually craftsmen do this work in ten days. But if you want to save money, this option will not work..
• Option 2. You can cut an MDF sheet according to the drawings yourself, if you have had at least some experience of such work before. And it will not be superfluous to use the possibilities of online services and other computer programs for designing furniture.

The cut is usually done within a week. When ordering it, do not forget that you need to mill the hinge holes on the facades.

The next moment is the installation of furniture.

Kitchen making tips (video)

DIY furniture installation: a universal scheme

Clear the wall and floor for furniture installation, clean the surfaces. Mark the attachment points with a pencil. After that, drill them, neatly and accurately according to the outline..

Advice from the masters: very often beginners sin by confusing details with each other. Therefore, they should be marked and arranged in piles..

After that you can start assembling:

1. You need to start with simple furniture, such as linear drawers..
2. The technology for assembling cabinets is always like this – a vertical is attached to a horizontal surface.
3. After that shelves, drawers and drawers are built in, various details.
4. Then the fixation of the legs begins, the facades are installed.
5. Doors are usually fastened together, when one person supports the facade, and the second drills the places for fasteners at this moment.
6. After that, a loop sits on the self-tapping screws, and the handles are screwed on..

Kitchen planning begins with drawing up a design project, then you need to choose a headset, and the whole process ends with its assembly and installation

Then the furniture can be installed. First, install the bottom row of cabinets, check the horizontal position, and only after that do the screed itself. The work begins with the outermost module, the kitchen countertops are installed on top. On the countertop with a pencil, mark the holes for the sink and, of course, the stoves..

Drill the corners and cut out the chipboard parts. After installing the lower row, the upper cabinets are mounted.

Kitchen enclosures: manufacturing or restoration

What are kitchen cases – in fact, these are the main furniture elements of the kitchen, figuratively speaking, the details of the designer. Typically these include wall cabinets, floor cabinets, and kitchen columns (pencil cases).

Floor cabinets are in-line, end, corner, sink cabinets. Kitchen columns can be single-leaf, double-leaf, for appliances, combined.

Wall cabinets can be with one door, two (vertical) or horizontal with a folding front or one door. There is a corner beveled wall cabinet, an end beveled wall cabinet and a cabinet without doors.

Of course, there comes a time when your kitchen has lost its attractive appearance and you are faced with the question: to restore or replace? A more profitable and less costly way is to replace the headset

But, of course, you will not make a kitchen with only buildings, so you will have to choose to them:

• Facades;
• Countertops;
• Fittings;
• Decor.

You can make a complex design using glass, or a simple headset, perhaps in a retro style. And there is an alternative – the restoration of the kitchen. Let’s say the material of your headset is of high quality, it can be used for a long time (solid wood), but outwardly the headset is outdated, the design is already different in fashion. Therefore, you can make a new one from the old kitchen with your own hands by restoration..

Kitchen furniture restoration: a fashionable reboot

The most typical restoration methods are varnishing, painting, pasting with a special decorative film, replacing parts.

Before restoration, be sure to clean the furniture from plaque and stains. And if it has scratches, use a wax pencil. Buy a pencil of the correct tone, melt it and fill in the scratch. And then wipe the entire surface with polish.

Interesting ideas are quickly picked up, for example, you can update furniture with ceramic decor.

The restoration will be the perfect solution for people who just want to update the look of their kitchen.

What is the decor with ceramic tiles:

1. Remove the hinged cabinet doors from the hinges;
2. Clean the surface, degrease, and, if necessary, paint in a suitable color;
3. Using tile adhesive, glue the tiles to the facade;
4. For a beautiful frame and convincing decor, you can make a frame from decorative molding around the tile applique.

This is, of course, not the only way to renovate furniture..

Making a new decor for the kitchen: decoupage

On the one hand, this is a budget repair option. But the work is painstaking, requiring at least minimal, but still artistic skills.

Decoupage is a method of transforming furniture using paper, fabric, leather, wood, glass. It all depends on your preferences

As materials for decoupage you need:

• Varnish;
• Acrylic paints;
• Sandpaper;
• Brushes, sponges, rollers;
• Acrylic primer;
• PVA glue (or better, special glue, specifically for decoupage);
• Putty knife.

You will need, of course, the material itself, which will decorate the surface. Today, thanks to the Internet, you can download ready-made pictures for decoupage, and already from them make a background, patterns, motives.

For beginners, the simplest type of decoupage is offered. For example, you can paste over the fronts of the cabinets with the remnants of wallpaper, if these wallpapers are beautiful and fit into the design of the kitchen space. It turns out fresh and smart, and your kitchen will not be like any other.

The complete kitchen making process: video instruction in steps

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Thinking about the appearance of your apartment, you want beauty, style, and originality. Therefore, more and more often people decide to work with their own hands, when the same kitchen set or its individual elements are made independently. Well, if you are not yet ready for such an adventure, you can simply restore the old set in any way you can, and perhaps the transformed furniture will acquire a new life, and you will save.

Good work!

Kitchen making (photo of interiors)