So you’re back for more Ikea Kitchen Cabinets fun? Didn’t have enough in our Ikea Cabinets 101 article? Or just couldn’t wait to find out how it all turns out? Well, be glad you tuned back in because this is the fun part. Here we take a bunch of plain white boxes and make a beautiful custom casework installation out of it all. We pick up after having hung our boxes and taking a well-deserved break…possibly with some delicious Swedish meatballs, or Swedish fish, yum! Read More
Cabinet Hardware Jig
True Position Tools – Cabinet Hardware Jig
I’m hardly a pro when it comes to installing cabinetry, but I have done several kitchens and built-in casework installations over the years. Not being a professional cabinet maker, and not knowing any better, I went to Home Depot and grabbed a very inexpensive set of plastic cabinet hardware templates for my first couple jobs. While they were inexpensive, that’s about the only good thing I could say about them. I had to use a finish nail to mark the locations, and I was limited to a number of pre-set hardware sizes, so forget it if I wanted to use anything oversized for the handles. I struggled through a kitchen, coffee bar and built-in dining buffet with that same cheap set of templates. While I made it work, it was anything but easy, and I can definitely say for certain, if I had the Cabinet Hardware Jig PRO by True Position Tools (recently sent to us for review), those drawer and door handles would have got installed a lot sooner, and probably would have been a bit more accurately placed as well. Read More