Installing Kitchen Cabinets? Read this before you get started.

Are you thinking about installing kitchen cabinets? Here’s some advice.

Mark and Theresa are checking out the interior cabinet lights and push-to-open feature at Wellborn booth.

In theory, setting kitchen cabinets should be easy: Strike a couple of level lines, fasten cabinets to the wall, and presto! You have a new kitchen.

Setting cabinets is a tempting DIY project because the installation principles are basic, but the reality—especially in the old-house world of crooked floors and uneven wall surfaces—is more complicated.

Installing new kitchen cabinets that look like they were built with your old house requires technique and planning.

Whether you’re doing it yourself or managing a contractor, my tricks-of-the-trade suggestions, from strategies for working alone to compensating for that out-of-plumb wall, can help turn your kitchen project into a plumb, level, and square reality.

Click below to read more about installing kitchen cabinets on Old House Journal.

 

 

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