Wood is a wonderful material for making furniture: durable, aesthetic and long-lasting. Products made from it are elegant and practical, and if they are made with your own hands, they will be especially pleasant and loved, since the home craftsman puts his love for home and family into his work.
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The benefits of DIY
If a home craftsman is “friends” with carpentry tools, it will not be difficult for him to please the hostess and make a sideboard with his own hands, which is necessary in any kitchen.
A self-made kitchen cabinet has a number of advantages over its “store-bought brothers”:
- you can choose a unique design for it;
- select the material to your taste;
- use original fittings;
- choose a color scheme for the buffet that best matches the kitchen interior.
In addition, wood products are extremely beneficial for health: they do not contain toxic compounds and do not emit harmful substances, but they fill the room with the aromas of essential oils.
A wooden sideboard is durable and convenient. It will serve for decades, and it is easy to restore and repair.
Another important advantage of making a kitchen cabinet with your own hands is the ability to make it in an original configuration and size that best suits convenience and comfort.
We decide on the design and construction
Making a kitchen sideboard yourself opens up a wide field for the imagination of the home craftsman. He can make it, according to his vision and ideas, in various styles:
- retro;
- high-tech;
- art;
- minimalism and others.
The designs of cabinets can also be very diverse, including corner and round.
Necessary materials
In the friendly family of kitchen furniture, the buffet occupies a special place - it reigns in the kitchen and has the features of an elegant sideboard and an ordinary cupboard for dishes. Previously, furniture was made "for centuries", so the most durable and high-quality wood, well-seasoned and processed, was chosen for its manufacture.
Today's supply of building materials allows you to choose the necessary option for making a sideboard with your own hands. But one of the most popular bases for kitchen furniture has become MDF, fiberboard, chipboard and solid wood. The latter does not require additional characteristics, being distinguished by strength, durability, beauty. As for wood boards, each of them has its own effective properties and disadvantages.
- Fiberboard is resistant to moisture and temperature changes. It is light, strong, durable, affordable and easy to process. A sideboard made of such material can be quickly assembled. It can be made functional and visually attractive. Most often, such boards are used to install the back walls of wall cabinets, drawers and shelves.
- Chipboard is available in a variety of colors. It is a durable and inexpensive material from which you can make a convenient, roomy and original cabinet that can easily fit into any kitchen interior. Among the significant disadvantages is the emission of formaldehyde into the air. To reduce their harmful effects on human health, it is necessary to place furniture made of chipboard away from heat sources.
- MDF is widely used today. It is manufactured using modern technologies, so it is an environmentally friendly material. It has high moisture resistance, which increases the feasibility of its use in the kitchen. It has a soft, easily processed structure, which allows you to make a variety of decor for furniture fronts of sideboards from it, giving products a variety of shapes. The only drawback is considered to be a fairly high price, compared to the cost of chipboard.
- Solid wood is a special chic and a demonstration of high taste. Ecologically clean, natural material.
The following types of wood are most often used to make sideboards:
- pine, durable and easy to process;
- larch, strong and not susceptible to the destructive effects of moisture;
- oak, practically eternal, not subject to decay and does not require varnish treatment.
Depending on the place where the hand-made buffet will be installed, you can use different materials. For a summer house or summer kitchen, you can make a kitchen cabinet from plastic, simple in design and inexpensive.
An original buffet in the kitchen of a mansion, made of MDF or solid wood, with unusual shelves and niches, will look expensive and presentable.
Necessary tools
To make a kitchen sideboard to your taste, you will need a custom set of tools, but among them there are those that you cannot do without, regardless of the material, design and configuration of the product the master chooses.
Standard set:
- drill;
- wood drills;
- jigsaw;
- circular saw;
- grinding machine;
- screwdriver
and other tools and devices that should be at hand.
Manufacturing process: step-by-step instructions
Before you pick up the tools, you need to clearly imagine what kind of buffet you will be making, and reflect your thoughts and ideas on the drawing, indicating all the details of the product.
First, the largest elements of the product that make up its base are prepared according to the available drawings, taking into account the necessary parameters. In order not to disrupt the assembly order and not to lose the necessary parts, experienced home craftsmen advise numbering all the parts.
After completing the preparatory work, the cabinet is assembled in the following order.
- Preparation of side furniture parts, drilling holes in them. It is worth paying attention to the advice of experienced craftsmen who recommend using a depth limiter to control the distance between the recesses. Its use allows you to protect furniture parts from through drilling.
- Connecting the partitions of the buffet
- Connecting the top of the product and the outer side pieces. The top of the product is placed on the end fasteners, and the side pieces and bottom are pushed forward until they stop.
- Installing the internal parts. First, the sideboard body is mounted on the rear ends. Screws are used to attach the lower part, and mounting angles are used to connect it to the upper part.
- Assembly of baseboard parts and their fastening. For marking the baseboard, a kitchen furniture drawing is used, according to which the panels are fixed on the bars located at the corners of the structure.
- Design of the front part. The plate is placed in its place, and protrusions of the required size are left on the sides. They are needed for hanging the doors and fixing the back panel.
- Fastening the back wall. The sideboard body is laid out on its side to fasten the panel in the required position.
- Installation of doors and hinges. The left and right doors, bottom and top are marked, after which the hinges are installed according to the designated marks. The cabinet doors are mounted in their places, securely fastened to the hinges.
- Installing furniture in its permanent place, installing shelves and drawers, checking the quality of installation and ease of use of the product.
Decorating a buffet
The final stage of making a unique kitchen cabinet made by yourself will be its decoration. Here you can use:
- ready-made fittings;
- wooden or metal decorative items made by hand;
- ornaments and colored decoupage images;
- photographs, glass and plastic jewelry;
- original decorative items, handmade or custom-made, depending on the style of the product.
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