How to Install Kitchen Cabinet Hardware

Discover ways to set up kitchen cupboard {hardware} and drawer pulls the straightforward method by following these 4 easy steps!

I’m so excited as a result of at this time marks the primary challenge put up in our new house, the house which we’ve lovingly dubbed “Orchard Home.”

Should you’re new round right here, we not too long ago bought the townhouse that we had lived in for 7 years and constructed a brand new home just a few miles down the street. We’re so excited to have a clean canvas to make our personal!

As a lot as I might have liked to leap proper into full on room makeovers, the fact is that there are some basic items we needed to sort out first to make our day-to-day lives slightly simpler, so I made a decision to perform a little “First Issues First” sequence to deal with a few of these small-but-mighty initiatives that make a huge impact on the house.

Selecting Kitchen Cupboard {Hardware}

An enormous due to D. Lawless {Hardware} for offering knobs and pulls for this put up. My favorable opinion of beautiful kitchen {hardware} is 100% my very own. This put up consists of affiliate hyperlinks. For extra info, see my disclosures right here.

First up: {hardware}! Our builder (Ryan Properties) has a typical set of {hardware} that they’re prepared to place in your cupboards earlier than you progress in. Nonetheless, I’m only a teensy bit choosy and didn’t love the choice they supplied, so we opted to have them go away their {hardware} off.

Should you’ve ever tried to open cupboards and drawers and not using a knob or pull, it may be an enormous ache, so earlier than we even unloaded one field or started organizing one cupboard, Donnie took the time to put in all the kitchen {hardware}.

We used beautiful knobs and pulls from D. Lawless {Hardware} within the townhouse kitchen reno, so after all they had been my go-to supply once we had been searching for {hardware} for our new kitchen as properly.

our kitchen within the townhouse

We had cup pulls (and these knobs) in our final home, and whereas I liked them, I made a decision to go for one thing completely different this time round:

These are literally referred to as Palermo pulls, which is form of ironic as a result of the mannequin of our house can also be referred to as Palermo. It was meant to be! And the beautiful Capital knobs coordinated with the pulls completely and look nice on the cupboard doorways.

Knob Placement + Pull Measurement For Cupboards

Use the information beneath if wanted to find out what dimension pulls will look the most effective and what number of knobs are wanted.

Drawer and Door Measurement	{Hardware} Information
Drawer much less than 16 inches large	One knob within the middle
Drawers over 16 inches large	Two knobs within the outer thirds of the drawer
Doorways much less than 24 inches tall	Use pulls which are 3-7 inches lengthy
Doorways between 24 and 36 inches	Use pulls which are 7-12 inches lengthy
Doorways over 36 inches	Use pulls which are 12 inches and longer

Understand that in the event you’re altering {hardware} in a kitchen (quite than putting in it for the primary time), it will likely be a lot simpler to go together with the identical dimension/sort of {hardware} in a special type.

For instance, if our cupboards beforehand had pulls however we needed knobs, we must patch the holes– together with sanding, portray, priming, and so forth.– earlier than we might set up the brand new {hardware}.

Tips on how to Set up Kitchen Cupboard {Hardware} Step-by-Step

1. Mark the spot for the {hardware} set up utilizing the template.

To put in the {hardware}, Donnie first picked up some cupboard {hardware} templates from the house enchancment retailer. We used each a door template and a drawer template when putting in our {hardware}.

door template (left) and drawer template (proper)

As an alternative of utilizing a tape measure, stage, and pencil to individually mark and measure each door and drawer, the templates have quite a lot of pre-defined choices. As soon as we discovered the one which labored finest for us, we used a marker to circle it, and it was straightforward to mark a drilling spot on all the cupboards with a pencil.

2. Tape the again of the cupboard door.

To forestall the wooden on the again of our drawers and cupboards from splitting as we drilled, we utilized some tape on the again of the cupboard door to carry issues collectively.

Ordinarily Donnie would use blue painter’s tape, however that was in a transferring field someplace, so I discovered the following smartest thing — washi tape. (I imply, each artistic blogger carries a roll of washi tape in her purse, proper? 😉 ) It labored like a appeal!

The essential factor is to make use of a tape that may be eliminated simply, in contrast to one thing like duct tape, which can go away a residue.

3. Drill the holes and add Loctite.

Subsequent, we drilled all of our marked holes with a bit that was solely barely bigger than our cupboard {hardware} screws. After drilling, the screws ought to slide simply into the outlet with out having to string the screws into the wooden.

Donnie’s pet peeve is when he installs cupboard {hardware} solely to have it loosen up just a few months later. He hates to must re-tighten it on a regular basis. Up to now he’s tried all types of strategies to forestall this.

He tried lock-washers, however they dig into the cupboard wooden. To forestall the wood-gouging, he’s tried lock washers with a traditional washer subsequent to the wooden. This retains issues tight, however having all of that additional {hardware} on the within of cupboards doesn’t look nice.

4. Screw the kitchen cupboard {hardware} into place.

For this {hardware} set up, Donnie used a special methodology – Loctite.

Earlier than attaching the knobs and pulls to the screw, he put slightly dab of blue Loctite onto the top of the threaded screws after which hooked up the {hardware}.

As soon as it dries, Loctite will bond the metallic collectively and maintain every thing tight.

Donnie repeated the identical steps with the drawer {hardware}, utilizing the drawer template quite than the door template, and our stunning new knobs and pulls had been good to go!

Whereas we had been on a {hardware} kick, we additionally determined to interchange the white plastic change plates and outlet covers with extra substantial wanting variations that matched our {hardware}.

And it’d look like overkill, however we additionally changed the vent covers on the ground with a prettier model. It’s only a tiny element, however I believe it improves the general appear and feel of the house.

So these had been a few of our first initiatives! Solely about 967,493 extra initiatives to go! Progress, nevertheless small, feels so good, and we’re making an increasing number of headway every day!

Thanks a lot for following together with our progress on Orchard Home! Hope you’re having an exquisite week!

An enormous due to D. Lawless {Hardware} for offering knobs and pulls for this put up. My favorable opinion of beautiful kitchen {hardware} is 100% my very own. This put up consists of affiliate hyperlinks. For extra info, see my disclosures right here.