Kitchen cabinet construction
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Comments (2)Boxes can have structural integrity even with some lesser construction methods. You will still get a good wearing cabinet with stapled drawers and non full extension drawer glides. If it passes the KCMA testing, it will pass the real world testing in your home of wear and tear. Now, you can always opt for better than minimum acceptable standards if you want, but you don't have to in order to get durable cabinet boxes. But, you may want to in order to get better appearance components. THe BIG differences in $$ cabinetry comes from the quality of the wood used on the doors and faceframes and the finishing process. The more money the cabinet costs, the better and more furniture quality the finishing becomes. Lower priced cherry cabinets often use a lot of sapwood and then a tinted top coat on top to mask that rather than a stained finish. A good quality line will use good quality materials and will have many many steps in finishing so as to get a smooth surface ready to accept a high quality top coat. And yes, good quality companies use MDF components in their painted cabinets. It's more stable in response to environmental humidity, and it provides a superior surface for applying paint to. Be sure you educate yourself enough to understand that. Ikea uses decent construction for the boxes and decent hardware. Their doors, well, they are what they are. Decent enough if you've never seen better. Not so hot if you know what good wood looks like. That is why many people have opted for Ikea boxes and gotten custom doors elsewhere....See Morebuying plans for kitchen cabinet construction, and other question
Comments (5)The cabinets I recently helped my brother tear out were solid pine, about 100 years old, painted, with inset doors and drawers. The cabinets themselves were clearly sticked in by a finish carpenter -- no fancy joinery there, just nicely fitted butt and miter joints fastened with lots o' nails. The end panels, shelves and vertical dividers were wide, clear pine boards; no frame-and-panel there. (Try and find a 22" wide, clear, straight-grained piece of pine today, though...) The doors were clearly made in a millwork shop somewhere else, all joinery cut with a shaper setup similar to modern cope-and-stick router bits; they weren't old enough to attribute to fancy hand molding planes. Drawers were rabbeted and nailed too (no dovetails), and their joints had lasted longer than the softwood wear surfaces they rode on. Five or ten years ago I remember finding some reprints of very old carpenters' guide-books, containing a lot of diagrams and note about how things ought to be assembled. Something like that might be useful. I know that Lee Valley carries a selection of reprints of old woodworking texts, so perhaps you can find something there. Maybe you could find an old house in your area that still has its original cabinetry, and get a look at how it was done....See MoreBest price and construction of kitchen cabinets?
Comments (25)@willinak Janet, it's not illegal, not fraudulent, just not well known, and yes I don't like it either. Well, it's probably more "black hat" than "illegal." Still, it is questionable to sell something you don't own. The Google results page belongs to Google, not to the consultant who is selling the first result slot to Dave. Promising to create a website that will be easily searchable by Google is one thing, promising the first slot is something else. People who sell things they don't own are also more likely to run off with your money without delivering, as poor Dave has found out. The "foo-foo dust" your dentist sprinkles has another name--spamdexing. Basically, it's possible to fool Google (or other search sites) into thinking a website is extremely popular and thus get a higher slot in the results page. Google then scrambles it's algorithms to prevent this, and the spamdexers adjust their tactics as well, and charge your dentist for more "dusting." No argument that it happens all the time, and may be a cost of doing business on certain search terms. --Janet Here is a link that might be useful: Wikipedia link on spamdexing...See MoreNew Construction - kitchen cabinet design feedback request
Comments (88)I think the one tweak I would make is to add an additional trash (or recycling or even compost) pullout near the sink, probably between the sink and stove where I know I would end up doing most of my prep. I'm always generating trash (wrappers, boxes, compostable scraps, etc.) during the prep process and I would love to have trash right there....See Morecribbs
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