Around The Fridge – Cabinet Building

August 26th, 2010 Posted in Kitchen Improvements

To give our kitchens a more attractive and pleasing, we can add more storage areas to it. Cabinets are the most notices part of every kitchen. Actually, it is the one that gives life into the entire kitchen. A cabinet around the fridge will be a perfect one to have. it will create a more classy yet elegant look into our kitchens. We can create this with just a few simple procedures:

First, we need to provide all the materials that we will need. These are:

· Flexible measuring tape 
· Molding 
· Wood screws 
· Drill 
· Stain 
· Finished plywood 
· 1/4 inch wood for the backing 
· Cabinet door hinges

After gathering and preparing all the materials, we now go to the building of our around the fridge cabinet. At first, it will seem a bit complicated for we know that around the fridge have lots of different measurements. This is the main task on this project: to measure properly. We need to make sure that everything will fit into their proper places or else we have to do it from the start again.

First we will measure the size of the fridge. Depends on how wide our fridge is. Typical refrigerators have a 30-inche wide body. The double door ones are 36 inches wide. We need to make sure that we will not damage our fridge once we already have our cabinets around it. We need to pay attention on the hinges and the doors of the cabinets goes with the doors of the fridge. Once we are opening and closing them, none of each should touch each other.

We also need to decide the depth of the cabinet should be. If we want it to the same as with the fridge or if it will exceed a little, we need to get the exact measurements that we want. We also need to decide how much clearance we want on each side. The recommended clearance is 5/4 to 1 inch clearance.

Choosing the wood will depend on what we have for the rest of the kitchen cabinets. It should match with the others in the kitchen. If we use used simple plywood with the existing cabinets, then that is the exact same wood we should use for our fridge cabinets.

After all the deciding, we now go to the building of the cabinets. The only difficult part of this is the measurements before the cutting. We need to make sure that we measured everything correctly before the final cutting. Then we go to the fun part which is putting all the parts together.

If they are assembled together, we can now finish our around the fridge cabinets by finishing them with either paint or stain, also depending on what colors we have with our existing cabinets.

After that we can now slide the cabinets around our fridge and enjoy our new kitchen look.

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