Tips & Ideas
Cabinets
Installing Kitchen Cabinets
Replacing Cabinet Doors & Drawers
We can simply change old cabinet doors and front panel of drawers, to give our kitchen cabinets a new look. All we have to do is remove the screws on the hinge with a screwdriver and place the new ones with a drill.
 
Skill Level
Easy Medium Hard
Required Skills
Basic carpentry skills, using power tools
Time Required
Experienced       30 min.
Handy                 1 hr.
Beginner           1.5 hrs.
(Based on one cabinet door & drawer)
What You Need?
Materials
Hinge cup, screws, cabinet handles, new cabinet door, front panel
Tools
Screwdriver, drill, set-square/ ruler, pencil, tape measure, drilling bits
Time Saver
While removing the cabinet doors, unscrew the hinges starting from inside the cabinets, not from the screws on the door. This way, removing the door will be easy and quick.
1.
Removing an old cabinet door: With a screwdriver let’s begin removing the screws of the hinge cup inside the cabinet. Once all the screws are out, we simply take out the cabinet door.
2.
Putting the hinge cup on the new cabinet door: After removing the old cabinet door, let’s now place the hinge cup into its place on the new cabinet door. We should make sure to check with a set-square/ ruler that the hinge cup is set in the correct angle. Now let’s screw the hinge cup onto the door with a drill.
3.
Installing the new cabinet door: Let’s screw the hinge cup onto the cabinet chest with a drill.
4.
Removing the old front panel: In order to remove the old front panel from the drawer, we begin by removing the screws on the front panel from the inside, with a screwdriver.
5.
Installing the new front panel: First, let’s center the new front panel onto the drawer. Then with a drill, we carefully screw the front panel onto the drawer.
6.
Drilling holes to place cabinet handles: Let’s measure the place for the holes required to place a handle with a tape measure and mark the points with a pencil. After the points are marked let’s drill them.
7.
Installing the cabinet handles: Our next step involves screwing the cabinet handles to the drawer with a screwdriver (we will repeat this process for the cabinet doors as well).