Do-it-yourself kitchen set: easier than it seems. Kitchen drawings

If you have finished renovating your kitchen or summer kitchen and now want to install a new set, you will probably be interested in how to assemble kitchen furniture correctly with your own hands.

Of course, you can buy a ready-made wooden set for the kitchen or summer kitchen, or order it at any furniture store, but you can also save on assembly, especially since this process is not at all complicated.

Creation of drawings and calculation of materials

Before you start assembling kitchen furniture with your own hands, you should draw up detailed kitchen drawings, which will indicate the width and height of the walls, the dimensions of the walls and window sills.

Also, in the drawings, add a communication diagram - gas and water pipes, wiring, batteries.

Drawings should reflect the shape of your future wood furniture - it can be straight, L-shaped and U-shaped. For a small one, the L-shaped or U-shaped form will be relevant.

It should be borne in mind that the stove should be no further than two meters from the gas pipe, the washing machine and dishwasher should be placed closer to the water and drain pipes, and the refrigerator should be placed further from the gas stove and closer to the power grid.

In the drawings, also include in which cabinets you will store dishes and all kitchen utensils, where food will be hidden. Don't forget about your work surface as well.

When creating drawings of wooden furniture for a large and small kitchen with your own hands, consider what material you need to make cabinet frames, facades, countertops from.

Which cabinets will have blind doors, and which ones will have glass or mirrored doors. All of these materials have their own thickness, so your drawings should take this into account as well.

Special attention should be paid to the calculation of fittings.

You should be aware that the standard height of the lower drawers is 85 cm. This includes the thickness of the table top, the height of the legs that are adjustable, as well as the cabinets themselves made of wood.

The width of the drawers depends on the filling and purpose, for example, dishwashers, ovens and hobs are mounted in a cabinet with an internal width of 60 cm.The rest of the cabinets can be made of absolutely any size, but in standard headsets these are usually round numbers - 30, 40, 50 cm.

If you only want to update the kitchen by replacing the facades, then just measure their dimensions.

If you are the owner of a small apartment, then your future kitchen should also be small, special attention should be paid to saving space.

You can save space in a small kitchen by using the space under the window, where you can place a work or dining surface.

You can also save space in a small kitchen by narrowing cabinets by 10 - 20 cm, built-in appliances, sliding doors. Consider all of this in your sketches.

If you are designing furniture for a summer kitchen, then you should also take into account some points. It is better to use materials for a summer kitchen that are heat and moisture resistant.

If you will be engaged in harvesting and canning in your summer kitchen, then take into account the space for storing vegetables and fruits and kitchen utensils.

If you find it difficult to make a drawing of furniture for your kitchen or summer kitchen yourself, then you can use ready-made drawings for a small and large kitchen, which are presented in various magazines and photos on the Internet.

To make your work easier, you can also use special furniture programs that are very easy to use.

When your drawings are ready, you need to make the final calculations and purchase all the necessary material.

To update just a few details of the kitchen space, detailed drawings are not needed.

Materials for kitchen furniture

Nowadays, kitchen furniture made of natural wood is rare, most often chipboard is used for making furniture with your own hands.

Basically, those firms that sell chipboard can cut sheets into parts of the size you need, as well as make edging of chipboard. Chipboard thickness for cabinets and nightstands - 16 or 18 mm.

For kitchen doors, you can buy regular hinges or hinges with door closers. For drawers made of chipboard, special systems are also sold for any pocket.

If funds allow, then you can choose different filling for your cabinets - dryers, nets, shelves, pull-out systems and much more, which will be especially important for a small kitchen.

All this you choose based on your taste and the volume of your wallet.

For the manufacture of facades, all the same chipboard is used, but you can purchase ready-made facades of standard sizes from mdf or natural wood.

It is best to choose a worktop that is moisture and heat resistant, but if you need a budget option (for example, for a summer kitchen), then you can use ordinary chipboard as a worktop.

Assembling the upper and lower cabinets

Do-it-yourself furniture assembly begins with the assembly of straight cabinets. Fasten the rails for the drawers to the side walls of the cabinets, as it will be inconvenient to do this later.

The assembly continues like this: the initial fastening of the cabinets is carried out by means of dowels, planted with glue. After that, connect the parts with a hex screw.

A decorative plug is then put on the screw head in the color of the cabinets.

Now you need to attach adjustable legs to the cabinet, or, if you have a budget option, ordinary plastic extension legs.

A sheet of laminated fiberboard is nailed as the back wall of the cabinet.

Do-it-yourself assembly of the upper cabinets is similar.

At this stage of work, adjustable door fasteners, lamps and other elements provided for in the design are also attached.

Now you need to assemble the drawers with your own hands.

They are assembled similarly to other cabinets - they fasten three walls together, insert them into the bottom of the fiberboard and fix the front of the box with a special tie.

Now attach the roller guides to the bottom corners of the drawer and slide the drawers back into place.

Installing the headset

When the assembly of the cabinets is completed, we proceed to install the furniture in its place. It is most convenient to start with a side cabinet or, if the furniture is angular, then with a corner cabinet.

In the cabinet in which the sink will be located, cut a hole for the drain and water pipes. Install all floor standing cabinets and adjust their height.

Wall cabinets need to be hung on a steel rail. Interconnect the cabinets with furniture ties to create a one-piece structure.

The upper cabinets should hang at least 60 cm from the lower ones.

The hob is attached in the same way. It is very inconvenient to cut such holes yourself, so it is better to call someone for help.

Now you need to attach the table top. If you have a corner kitchen, then the ends of the countertops are connected using metal strips; in a small kitchen, the countertop goes in one solid piece.

The ends of the coating at the slab are closed with finishing strips also made of metal, and where heat will not act, the furniture edge is fixed.

The tabletop should be installed on cabinets with an overlap of about 3 cm, from below it is fixed with self-tapping screws. When everything is assembled, you can hang the doors on the cabinets.

If this is done at the very beginning, then they would interfere with the further installation of the kitchen, so the doors are hung at the end of the work.

With a special plastic skirting board, in the color of your countertop, the gaps between the surface and the wall are sealed. Install the sink, stove and hood.

Renovation of an old kitchen unit

In the event that you only need to update the headset, for example, when its filling is still in good condition, but the design is outdated or tired, or you want to make an updated headset for a summer kitchen or summer cottage, then you can use several methods.

The easiest and cheapest way to update a summer kitchen set with your own hands is to glue it over with self-adhesive tape or decorate the facades with vinyl stickers.

This option is suitable as country furniture or furniture for a summer kitchen.

A more radical way to update your kitchen with your own hands is to replace the facades. Instead of old facades, you can purchase facades made of wood or chipboard in standard sizes or by individual sizes.

If you want to update your kitchen inexpensively, then you can do it with the help of facades made of chipboard, plastic or cheap wood.

If your budget is unlimited, then you can upgrade your headset with valuable wood or MDF. You can update your kitchen with your own hands with moldings and painting.

Such an update will be appropriate in small and large kitchens, and will also perfectly complement the furniture for the summer kitchen.

Make notes on the facades, glue the molding with wood glue, attach the fittings, prime and paint the surface.

The country and kitchen furniture updated in this way will look fresh and new.

Designing and building a kitchen set with your own hands is not as difficult and problematic as it might seem from the first minute. Of course, it will not be possible to assemble a facade of furniture quality, this requires considerable experience and special equipment, but it is quite possible to make a kitchen set for a summer residence with your own hands. The question rests only on the availability of a sufficient amount of resources and free time.

The order of work, how to build a headset competently and reliably

Before making the first kitchen set with your own hands, it will be useful, first of all, to evaluate your strengths. The fact is that kitchen furniture can be made in two ways:

As a built-in kitchen set placed on a pre-assembled timber frame. The built-in headset is easier to manufacture, requires fewer resources, and the process itself takes a few days at most;
The prefabricated set is, in fact, an exact copy of the factory kitchen furniture, with the only difference that we make a kitchen set with our own hands from a glued spruce plate with hand carpentry tools, without furniture lamination.

Frame versions of headsets are distinguished by their enormous load-bearing capacity. Due to the frame and the absence of adjustable legs, kitchen furniture is very durable and stable. On shelves and drawers, you can put twice or three times more kitchen utensils than in a classic type-setting or modular set. And even after 20 years of operation, the cabinets will not sag, and the lower tier in the kitchen set will not bend in an arc due to the prohibitive or uneven load on the countertop.

But the modular design has its advantages. For example, if the frame in the event of a breakdown is very long and difficult to repair, then for the typesetting scheme the problem of how to repair a kitchen set with your own hands is solved in a couple of hours. It is enough to unfasten the ties and pull out the cabinet or cabinet that needs repair.

Selection of drawing and materials

Regardless of which method is chosen for the manufacture of furniture, before making a kitchen set with your own hands, you need to pick up drawings for the product or make them yourself, preferably with the maximum degree of detail.

One of the options for how to draw up a sketch and calculate the dimensions for a kitchen set with your own hands is shown in the video

The set of drawings should contain three main documents:

An assembly sketch, which reflects all the nuances and dimensions necessary to understand how a kitchen set is assembled;
Detailing or schematic drawing for every detail;
General list and picture of blanks for each module or built-in cabinet.

As a material, it is best to use a simple and non-scarce glued spruce panel with dimensions of 600x1200 mm, 30 mm thick. For the frame scheme, you can use any timber and the same spruce panel, but of a more modest size, 400x600 mm. Of course, before starting work, the material must be impregnated with wood-boring protection and covered with a protective varnish.

We build a frame headset with our own hands

Traditionally, built-in models of kitchen sets were made in an angular design. This made it possible to strengthen the structure and at the same time increase the supporting area of the kitchen facade.

The kitchen set is assembled in the following order:

Frame assembly;
Installation of countertops;
Making boxes and hanging doors on bedside tables and wardrobes;
Wood tinting, finishing operations.

With dimensions of 200x250 cm, the average manufacturing cost is about 50 thousand rubles. Skeptics may argue that for this amount you can buy something similar in any of the firms that make furniture from chipboard. But in practice, to independently make a kitchen set with your own hands, a photo, means a guarantee of quality and a minimum risk of alterations.

For the frame, we use pine beams, carefully dried and treated with varnish impregnation. First of all, you need to assemble the upper tier, cut off a piece of 90 cm from a 50x50 mm bar and sew it with dowels vertically, along the corner line of the wall.

The second approach is to sew the left and right horizontal strips of the frame. In order to hold the tabletop of the headset, it is necessary to use a starter strip, at least 20 mm thick and 10 cm wide. Further, the lower box is assembled from a 20x100 mm board, it can be laid directly on the floor, provided, of course, that the tiles or any other floor covering on which the kitchen set will rest have a waterproofing sublayer.

The next action on the assembled L-shaped box is vertically installed partitions made of spruce panels, which in the future will form the power frame of the lower tier of the kitchen set. To sew the partitions to the previously installed starting strips, a corner cutout or cut out in the form of a 60x20 mm rectangle is made at the corners of the panels.

After aligning the panels, a second pair of horizontal strips are stuffed. The frame of the kitchen set is ready, you can proceed to laying the countertop.

Countertop for kitchen furniture

The most expensive part of a homemade kitchen set. The cost of one set will cost about 15-20 thousand rubles. For the frame structure, it is best to use laminated chipboard with glued ends.

A slab purchased in advance with a width of 60 cm and a length of 4.5-5 m is marked for cutting into two equal parts. First, the left part 2.5 m long is laid on the frame. The plate can be fixed on self-tapping screws from the inside, or it can be deposited on the headset with silicone sealant, without mechanical fasteners.

The second part of the kitchen worktop fits into the end with the letter L, while the cutting line does not even need to be cleaned. The joint line, like all similar parts in the headset, will be glued and closed with an overhead molding.

We equip the set with a sink, drawers and doors

Until the main elements are installed on the frame headset - boxes and shelves, it is necessary to carry out installation work with a sink, connecting a water supply and a sewer drain. Of course, until the frame headset is fully assembled, all communications remain muted.

The sink is installed last on the kitchen worktop. In order not to rip off the thin laminated film, we glue transparent tape along the marked cutout line.

Using a jigsaw, cut out an oval window;
We coat the walls of the cut with silicone;
We install and upset the sink bowl.

To install the working drawers of the headset, you must first fill in the wooden slats, along which the boxes with kitchen utensils will slide out of the body of the headset.

Each box is assembled on a pre-prepared rectangular template, the sides and back wall are made of a wooden plank, the bottom is made of plywood. The only difficulty that can be encountered when making a frame kitchen set is the need to manufacture facades-doors and front panels of drawers.

Cutting them beautifully by hand, so that a home-made kitchen set looks at the factory level, obviously will not work, so this part of the detailing will need to be ordered or bought ready-made.

We make a modular kitchen set

A type-setting kitchen set takes much longer and more difficult to build. If the kitchen furniture includes a lower support tier and a set of hanging drawers, then the whole work will take at least 5-10 days, depending on the size and complexity of finishing the headset.

Material preparation

Before cutting and cutting the purchased panel material into a set, it is necessary to reject the slabs, discard all knotty, curved panels. The material with small cracks is sent for auxiliary purposes, for example, for cutting the internal shelves of a kitchen set.

The rest of the panels are cut out according to the available sketches and drawings. Upon completion of cutting the blanks, the ends of the front parts of the future kitchen set are sealed with polyurethane tape, and the surface is polished to a matte sheen.

One of the best auxiliary materials on how to make a kitchen set with your own hands is shown in the video.

Step one, we build boxes and cabinets for the headset

If the cutting of the blanks is done correctly, without deviations from the calculated dimensions, then the assembly operations in the manufacture of cabinets and pedestals are no more difficult than if you assemble a purchased factory kitchen set.

For example, a hinged kitchen drawer is made in the following order:

After assembly, the corner edges must be carefully cleaned with fine emery paper in order to avoid burrs and remove the protruding edge of the sidewall.

Assembling the drying cabinet

The details of the lower tier are assembled in the same way as a wall cabinet, but the assembly work has its own nuances. Most kitchen sets are equipped with dryers or drying cabinets for dishes. Making a dish dryer requires the correct installation of additional equipment - a rack and a tray.

The drying cabinet body is assembled with self-tapping screws. Since the kitchen set must be installed with a ten-centimeter gap from the floor, support legs are attached to the bottom of the box, the front ones are made of chrome-plated steel, the rear ones are made of impact-resistant plastic.

The dryer itself can be made from a steel mesh on its own, but this option is not always suitable. If you make a kitchen set at a professional level, then it is best to use a ready-made set of parts for a dryer with a door closer.

The principle of operation of such a device is not much different from a drawer. The only difference is that instead of a wooden box, a metal mesh with cells for dishes is pushed in and out, and a built-in mechanical closer helps push a heavy loaded dryer to the end into the cabinet.

The first step is to mark on the inner side of the vertical walls two lines for fastening the runners with a closer and fasten the supporting parts to the walls.

For your information! The closer is used for inertial finishing of the drawer and shockless closing of any pull-out object built into the kitchen set.

And at the end of the assembly, we attach the front panel to the front of the retractable dryer.

As a result, a drying compartment is obtained in the kitchen set, which is no different from a factory dryer.

Making a metabox

Most of the kitchen utensils are stored in the headset in the drawers. Therefore, it is difficult to imagine how, when making a kitchen set, you can do without a dryer with a pull-out drawer compartment.

For a dryer, an improved version of a drawer, also referred to as a metabox or a metal box, is best suited. In fact, this is an ordinary box with metal sides and roller supports.

The metabox is based on a cut-to-size plywood bottom. The back wall of the box, also made of plywood, is attached to the rear edge of the workpiece.

The fastening is very simple, but it should be done very carefully and carefully so as not to go beyond the boundaries of the box, otherwise the metabox curve will ruin the whole impression of the beautiful facade of the kitchen set.

The next step, using self-tapping screws, is to fasten the metal sidewalls with roller bearings. At the bottom of the bedside table, into which the metabox will be inserted, we install the guide runners. It remains to perform one of the most delicate operations, making a kitchen set. You will need to fix the front panel of the metabox so that it covers the bottom edge of the bottom of the cabinet. In this case, the gap between the upper edge of the metabox panel and the front of the dryer was no more than 2 mm.

Headset lockers operation

The screed of several hanging boxes into one monoblock is used in order to give the kitchen unit a higher rigidity. Preparation and marking is carried out "on the ground", the screed itself is carried out at the time of hanging the boxes on the wall.

Previously, the upper tier of the kitchen set is laid out horizontally on a flat table surface.

Kitchen set, lower tier

The assembly and screed of the lower tier of the kitchen unit remains much more laborious. The assembly process begins with the installation of all cabinets and cabinets on a flat horizontal surface.

First, by rotating the support legs, the headset is leveled in height. The absence of distortions is controlled using a building level. Once all the cabinets have taken the desired position, the entire structure is fixed with several building clamps.

After final alignment and fixation, holes M5-M8 are drilled in the adjacent walls, tie pairs are installed and tightened to working condition. The entire kitchen set is transformed into a monoblock by design.

The issue of installing the countertop must be resolved only after the plate has been fitted and installed without gluing in a rough version. For homemade kitchen sets, only the option of making a countertop based on laminated chipboard or waterproof plywood is possible. It is possible to cut a window for installation in a sink and hob set only after the installation of water and gas communications is completed.

Conclusion

It is quite within the power of an ordinary amateur carpenter of average skill to plan and make a kitchen set with your own hands. Despite the fact that some components for a kitchen set have to be purchased ready-made, economically building cabinets and tables turns out to be more profitable than buying ready-made factory furniture for the kitchen.

Correctly chosen furniture fits organically into the interior, bringing comfort during work and rest. Kitchen furniture can be ordered in specialized stores from the standard series, but to obtain organic and coziness, it should be made according to individual sizes. It is possible to order manufacturing according to your own sizes in the store, but it is more profitable to make a kitchen with your own hands.

Stages of making furniture

In the manufacture of furniture, the basis is the developed drawings and diagrams of the kitchen set. It is not difficult to complete the project with your own hands, but accuracy and precision will be required. Manufacturing of kitchen furniture takes place in several stages. For this, the following step-by-step instructions apply:

Designing the arrangement of furniture elements.
Calculation of the size of furniture parts.
The choice of material and fittings.
Sawing and assembly of structural elements.
Installation of ready-made blocks.
Fasteners for hardware parts.

Kitchen set project

The first thing to start with is to measure the kitchen space. After that, you can schematically draw, even on a simple sheet of paper, the location and appearance of kitchen items, as well as door and window openings. Realizing your idea, depict, on an approximate scale, the elements of the kitchen set.

When planning the placement of boxes, the following points are taken into account:

Detailing and calculation of dimensions

After a rough sketch of the kitchen is drawn, they are precise overall measurements the lengths and heights of the lines on which the boxes will be located. Detailing is done after measurements. This is an important and crucial moment. Detailing involves the decomposition of each cabinet into separate parts with an indication of their dimensions.

For example, the detailing of the curbstone. It consists of a bottom, a top, two sides, a back panel and one shelf. Cabinet height 740 mm, width 500 mm, depth 350 mm, material thickness 16 mm. Fiberboard with a thickness of 2 mm is used as the back wall, the thickness of the facade is 20 mm. A drawing of each part is made, and the dimensions of the width and height are affixed.

For the example under consideration, the height of the walls will be 740-16-16 = 708 mm, that is, subtract the thickness of the bottom and top from the total height of the cabinet, since the walls are located between the top and bottom. The width will be 350-2-20 = 328 mm. The size of each sidewall will turn out to be 708 × 328 mm.

The dimensions of the top and bottom are the same, they are equal in width and depth to the dimensions of the cabinet 500 × 350 mm. The rear wall and the front, according to the design, measure 740 × 500 mm.

The shelf is planned to be removable , located between two walls, plus for ease of removal we remove one millimeter on each side, then its width is 500-16-16-2 = 466 mm. We make the depth with a gap along the facade of 4 mm, it turns out 350-20-2-4 = 324 mm. The result is a shelf with dimensions of 466 x 324 mm.

Thus, each drawer, cabinet and other piece of furniture is calculated and depicted on the plan. When developing drawings and diagrams of furniture with your own hands, all mistakes are made due to carelessness, so you should be extremely careful, and it is better to do a recount for verification the next day.

It should be noted that it is possible to design a kitchen using a computer, or rather, special programs. One of the popular and convenient PRO 100. This program will allow you to simulate in 3D the future look of the kitchen as a whole and will help you complete the detailing. Having looked at the general view, it will be possible to easily move the cabinets and check if the dimensions fit exactly. Although the PRO 100 allows you to perform an example of cutting, it is better to do this in a specialized program such as Cutting. She will calculate the most economical arrangement of parts on the sheet, helping to minimize waste, taking into account technological tolerances and cut thickness.

Selection of the material to be used

After the drawings have been completed and the dimensions of the kitchen cabinets have been determined, a crucial stage begins in the selection of material. It is selected for each component of the kitchen:

countertops;
facade;
back wall;
frame of boxes.

The main requirement for a countertop is the ability to withstand moisture and resistance to mechanical damage. The materials used are granite, marble, plastic, chipboard, MDF. The most popular is laminated MDF. Recently, it has been popular to manufacture from a sheet of laminated chipboard (postforming), covered with plastic on top. Both the cost of the kitchen and its durability depend on the material of the countertop, as well as the facade.

Facades are the decoration of the entire kitchen, they can be solid and frame. Usually, for their manufacture, they use laminated chipboard (LDSP), MDF, plastic, aluminum, glass, wood, acrylic plastic ... Each species has advantages and disadvantages. Most often, MDF is chosen. It can be covered with foil and dyed. It should be noted that in places of possible heating it is best to use painted MDF. It is not afraid of high temperatures and will not deform like a laminated structure.

The back wall is made of fiberboard sheets, they are available in different thicknesses, for furniture, thicknesses of 2.5 mm or 3.2 mm are used. They contain ground and pressed wood chips mixed with antiseptic and binding components. A melamine film is attached to the front side.

To the frame of the boxes strength requirements are imposed, since it is the basis for fastening the remaining elements. The most popular are chipboard, MDF, wood. Chipboard is the cheapest option, but also the most impractical. It is sensitive to moisture and degrades quickly. Therefore, the most widespread is MDF. MDF is obtained by gluing wood fibers under the influence of high temperature and pressure.

The kitchen of their wood stands apart. Wooden products are strong, durable, environmentally friendly. Such material is easy to process and will freely allow you to make a kitchen made of wood with your own hands, even for a novice master. Hardwoods are best used for the production of solid wood and slabs, and soft for shelves, facades, decorative elements. Depending on the type of wood, you can choose the color. A solid wood kitchen is appropriate in country houses, especially if they are made of a log house. It is important to note what if the kitchen set is equipped with a built-in plate, the tree is not suitable for the structure due to fire safety requirements.

Determination of the fittings to be installed

When choosing fittings, financial possibilities are assessed first of all. All elements of devices are divided into two types: fixing and front. Quality parts are expensive but also last longer. This applies primarily to hinges and drawer systems.

It is better to choose hinges with automatic door closers. Use tandemboxes or metaboxes as drawers. You need to choose famous brands such as BLUM, Hettich, Boyard. If it is planned to use boxes with the elevation of the facade upwards, gas lifts are installed, which are more practical than mechanical lifts.

In retail outlets, there are pens of various shapes and qualities. The quality of the handle is characterized by the material and type of coating. It can be metal alloys, wood, silumin, etc. When choosing, you should try the product by touch, imagine how convenient it will be to use it.

Sawing and assembly of structural elements

The material is selected, the project is drawn, it remains to cut. It is difficult to make straight accurate cuts at home, since this requires coordinate machines with high-quality cutters. It is more convenient to order a cut in production. To do this, you will need to give the material and a list of parts with their dimensions, and the rest will be done by a specialized company. Usually, it also orders the gluing of the edge both on the elements of the kitchen frames and on the open sides of the countertop. The glued edge will not only give the products a finished look, but also protect the exposed parts from moisture.

The very assembly of boxes and other structural elements takes place using a tool ... This tool includes:

square;
drill;
set of drills;
pencil;
conductor.

In addition to the tool, you will need furniture fasteners: minifix, rafix, dowel, self-tapping screws, etc.

Using a furniture jig, it is not difficult to assemble a drawer, install a hinge or a sliding mechanism. The furniture conductor can be used homemade, or it is possible to purchase a professional one. Such devices contain all kinds of hole sizes, made at a standard distance and corresponding to different mounting options. Its use is to install it on the workpiece and carry out drilling work through it. In the case of a homemade version, the jig is often made in the form of a template.

All boxes are assembled independently of each other in a convenient place. Holes for the facade hinges are preliminarily prepared on the structural elements, and in the case of drawers, door closers and the extension mechanisms themselves are installed.

Furniture installation and fastening

Kitchen installation starts with hanging boxes. For this, hooks driven into the wall or a mounting plate are used. The use of the bar is justified by the ease of installation and adjustment of the position. For this, hinges or staples are installed in the hanging boxes.

The plank is screwed to the wall strictly horizontally at the required height. Thanks to its design, the hitch mounted in the drawers can be easily put on the rail and allows the position to be adjusted in any plane. This mounting method is easy to do alone. All boxes are connected to each other with furniture screws, after having drilled holes.

After the upper cabinets, the lower furniture is placed in its place. It is adjustable horizontally and the table top is laid on top of it. Holes are cut in the countertop for built-in appliances and a sink.

The installation and leveling process will facilitate the preliminary preparation of the walls and floor, for this they will need to be aligned, pre-installed sockets and light sources.

At the last stage, the facades are hung. The hinges are installed in specially prepared places, the handles are fastened and the drawers are installed in the guides. Then the base is installed.

At home.

Almost any man can make furniture for the kitchen on his own.

It is worth deciding on the materials from which the furniture is made. The tools are prepared in advance and executed. When planning the structure, the dimensions of the room are taken into account.

A furniture set can be designed and assembled from ready-made parts by anyone who has carpentry skills and knows how to use a screwdriver. Let's find out how to make kitchen furniture.

What tool do you need?

Simple DIY furniture is done using special tools. Measuring devices, drills and other tools are being prepared.

With the help of a screwdriver, furniture fittings are attached, and the screws are tightened. This tool will save time on assembly. A hex key is used to tighten the confirmations. It is recommended to purchase a reversible screwdriver that is equipped with multiple bits.

Drills of different diameters are selected. With the help of an awl, a cut is made under the place of drilling. For measurements, a square and a tape measure are selected. Grinding the ends of the chipboard is carried out using sandpaper.

Holes are drilled with chipboard. We do furniture ourselves for the home using a hand router and an electric jigsaw. A rubber mallet and a stationery knife are selected.

Furniture maker tools are standard that almost everyone has at home.

The material is prepared in advance. MDF is used for the facade. as a basis. DIY home furniture is made using wood. This material is considered expensive.

What does the project consist of?

Before making furniture for the home, you need to complete a sketch and drawing. When creating a structure on your own, the features of the room are taken into account and high-quality materials are selected.

Special programs that are used even by non-professionals will help create a project.

This constructor allows you to plan the appearance of the product and evaluate the design.

Make, in which the following parameters will be taken into account:

Selection of a style option.
Choice of color, shape of facades and materials.
Additional elements are selected: decorative details and a table top.
Placement of dryers, baskets.

Measurements of the room for drawing up a drawing

Take measurements seriously.

We make a wardrobe with our own hands, starting with measurements. The height, depth and width of the product will be determined. Wall and floor levels are measured. If a corner set is created, the depth of the corner is measured.

The dimensions of the room and the dimensions of the future furniture, taking into account the equipment placed, are applied to a piece of paper.

After completing the drawing, the headset design and color palette are selected.

A preliminary drawing will allow you to make your own kitchen set yourself.

Features of cutting material

The size of the facade and the dimensions of the main parts are taken into account: the cover, bottom and walls.

Together with wood-based panels, hinges for kitchen furniture are purchased.

You can stick the edging tape on the chipboard yourself. To do this, you need a melamine edging, a roller, a knife, a sandpaper and an iron.

First, the iron is heated, then the edges are processed with sandpaper. Then gluing is performed. After carrying out the iron, the part is pressed with a roller.

Then the edges are trimmed.

It is very simple and pleasant to work with furniture with an electric jigsaw.

Selection of facade elements

If we make the furniture ourselves, then the facades are ordered in special organizations. In this case, cost matters. The facades are offered in standard sizes, but they can also be made according to individual requests.

It is important to choose the color of the facade structures. Colors are selected that imitate natural wood species.

Fasteners and fittings

Wooden furniture fittings and fasteners are selected. Calculation of details is carried out. Self-tapping screws, metal corners, nails and Euro screws are needed as fasteners.

The fittings are selected. When choosing hinges, it is worth considering in which direction the doors will open. The template is used for the furniture hinge. Ventilation and lighting methods are provided inside the cabinets.

Aluminum fittings are used for the doors. For fastening the shelves, corners and special bars are used.

Fastened with dowels or nails. Used, which are lifting mechanisms.

Guides with closers are expensive.

Here for an amateur, choose what you know

How to assemble furniture?

After preparing all the details, do-it-yourself furniture for the house is made. An edge is glued to the end parts of the elements. Holes are drilled in the housing according to the markings made. Holes on the facades are carefully milled to avoid holes through. The depth of the holes depends on the thickness of the material.

Cabinets are assembled according to the box principle. Vertical surfaces are mounted to horizontal surfaces. After assembling the cabinet, it is filled with shelves and drawers.

Using a level, roller guides and furniture gas lift are screwed on.

Then the guide shelves are fastened. The door leaf is mounted on the hinges.

Make cabinets using door adjustments. Tips on the topic: It is recommended to install facades last. The doors are mounted in the open position. This procedure is done in pairs. One person supports the facade and the other drills the holes. Then the loop is mounted on self-tapping screws.

The assembly process ends with the installation of the outer handles. This produces through holes.

The legs are mounted on the assembled and inverted product.

Assembling furniture should be a neat exercise, the main thing is not to damage the appearance of the headset.

The countertop and the connection of parts of the kitchen set require special attention.

Making furniture with your own hands is not so difficult. The table top is assembled after assembling the bottom row. This part is mounted using self-tapping screws. Holes for the sink and stove are cut on the surface of the countertop. To do this, markup is done with a pencil.

After installing the lower tier, the upper tier is installed. The distance from the table top to the bottom of the upper cabinet must be at least 600 mm.

Which countertop option should you choose?

Kitchen furniture is made of high quality materials. The table top deserves attention. It is a functional and decorative element made of various materials.

Worktops made of granite are characterized by wear resistance and resistance to hot conditions. This material is not picky about care. The products are suitable for any interior.
Marble products have a smooth surface on which it is convenient to roll the dough. It is considered one of the most expensive materials.
Artificial stone furniture is reliable and hygienic. The surface is resistant to high humidity. The countertops are 90% quartz and non-stained. During installation, the bayonets are ground and become invisible.
The standard thickness of the acrylic table top is 12 mm. The material is durable and lightweight. Cracks in this material can be easily sanded and treated with a protective adhesive. This material is combined with plastic, metal and wood.

The countertop looks good when it is massive

For stone countertops, it is better to use light shades, as scratches can be visible on a dark table.

Artificial stone countertops have many advantages. They are made of this material, since it is considered environmentally friendly, plastic and durable.

Wood surfaces have an attractive appearance and a flat work surface. Do-it-yourself built-in furniture is made of this material. Irregularities in the wood are easily corrected. They are treated with special oils and cleaned. A running meter for the kitchen of this material will cost 2000-6000 rubles.

Laminate countertops are popular. The surface of the product is resistant to damage. No special care required.

Laminated products imitate marble and wood products.

Chipboard countertops have the following qualities:

have moisture resistance;
the composition of formaldehyde does not exceed the permissible level;
the decor can be both simple and original;
affordability, the countertop will cost 500-1000 rubles per running meter.

Concrete countertops are painted, polished and sanded. The composition of the material includes beautiful pebbles or shells.

A concrete countertop is easy to make at home

Products made of ceramic tiles are distinguished by their original design. This material is not chip resistant.

Stainless steel work surfaces have a smooth surface. These products are used in modern interiors. The advantages include resistance to high temperatures and dirt. Such material is simply cleaned up. In addition, the steel is hygienic and can last for a long time.

What are the nuances of installing a furniture set you need to know?

The installation of the furniture set is carried out on its own. Knowing the nuances of installation work, you can make your job easier.

The finishing work in the kitchen must be completed prior to installation. The furniture is installed on a flat floor next to dry walls.

The following knowledge will make the job easier:

Furniture is assembled from the outermost element. The bottom row is set using a level. The surface should be flat - this will make it easier to mount the tabletop. The cabinets are fastened with Euro ties.
The table top is fastened with self-tapping screws.
After the installation of the lower row, the installation of the upper tier is carried out.
A canopy is mounted to the rear wall, on which the cabinets are attached.
If a hood is supposed to be installed, it should be installed last.

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Each element is marked and stacked next to the installation site. This approach will prevent you from getting confused and not losing details.

The use of quality materials and special tools will facilitate the installation work. A hand-made headset will perfectly fit into the interior.

Fuh, the renovation is over, there is a queue for furniture. We start, of course, with the kitchen.

Having made miscalculations with furniture makers - from home-made garage ones to well-known brands - I received figures (Kiev) from 4 to 7 thousand dollars (I will not mention Italian and German brands). This is despite the fact that the kitchen has only the lower part. And this is without taking into account the cost of equipment, sink, mixer. Well, it’s not a fact that by paying decent money, you will get a result corresponding in quality. My neighbor paid 3 thousand for the kitchen - incorrect measurements, repeated trips to "finish on the spot", inexpensive fittings (it doesn't smell like closers), the countertop was swollen after a few months of use.

Pricing for furniture makers, as it turned out, is quite simple - the total cost of materials is multiplied by a coefficient from 2 (garage) to 3 and even higher (brand). Two-thirds of the cost of a high-tech kitchen comes from fittings. The Blum Tandembox Intivo full extension kitchen drawer unit costs a little less than $ 100, but each drawer will cost the end customer $ 200-300. Not a bad profitability considering the very easy-to-assemble and well-documented hardware, right? In practice, this is a profit of $ 100-200 for 15 minutes of work. Do you want to do something non-standard? No, this is absolutely impossible! But in fact, just no one wants to turn on their brains.

My neighbor's dressing room was completely and independently made by her sister. This got me thinking. If a girl did something like that, then really I, a big fan of craftsmanship, with a diploma from a technical university, will not make myself a kitchen with these strong and hairy hands? Of course I will, epta!

So, the decision has been made, we assemble the kitchen ourselves!

In search of our own solution and style, my wife and I looked at thousands of photos of different cuisines. As a result, we agreed that the lightness of the interior is above all and we do not need the upper cabinets - we refuse them due to the open shelves made of tempered glass. For the lower cabinets, the only correct solution has been chosen - full extension drawers. The undisputed leader in these solutions are the products of the Austrian company Blum, and we will work with them.

Of course, in any business there are many nuances, and the devil, as you know, is in the details. We replenish the theoretical base on the forums, on a very good site for these purposes sdelaimebel.ru (see what kind of furniture people make with their own hands in the "Competition" section), study photographs. The Internet has answers to all questions.

We divide the work into stages:

Measurement

The simplest stage, which, however, must be done very carefully. As you know, right angles do not exist, and you, with millimeter accuracy, need to draw up a drawing of the place where you want to place the kitchen, indicating the location of the outlets for water, electricity, and of any stupid pipes, if you have them.

During the repair phase, I bought a Leica Disto D2 laser rangefinder. This is a very handy thing that will come in handy more than once in life, so you shouldn't be stingy.

During the measurement, I was faced with the fact that the angle was not quite right - 91 degrees. And this one degree here will give us a five-centimeter hole between the wall and the back of the last pedestal on a three-meter segment - if we assemble it “correctly”, at a right angle. I'll show you how I easily solved this problem later.

Design development

Kitchen furniture almost always has a modular design - that is, it consists of separate cabinets. The width of the cabinet is usually a multiple of 15 centimeters - 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 120 cm. In fact, this is just a tribute to the unification of production, so nothing stops you from deviating from this standard. During assembly, kitchen cabinets are fastened together and covered with a countertop - therefore, the modularity of the design may not be obvious.

What is a kitchen cabinet? The bottom, two sidewalls, two narrow strips holding the sidewalls together from above (they do this, only to save material) and the back wall made of thin fiberboard. This is the foundation upon which everything else hangs. Is it difficult to do this? Not at all. At the design stage, we don't even need to know how we will fasten all these parts together.

There are several popular furniture design programs. Some do it in AutoCAD, some do not use software at all and make drawings on paper. I used the PRO100 - it is really simple to the disgrace, you will get used to it in a couple of hours.

This is what I got as a result of the design:

Everything about Blum products is great - just a piece of German-Austrian engineering. Use the proprietary Blum Dynalog program and, as a result, you will receive drawings with all the markings necessary for installing the fittings:

I will describe the design details below, using the example of photographs of finished products.

Purchase of kitchen appliances

I recommend not leaving this stage "for later". At a minimum, it is advisable, if not to buy, then at least clearly define what you will buy later and download all the documentation for these products. Oven, stove, sink - although they are made according to some kitchen standards, they can have structural features. Making a kitchen without even imagining what kind of equipment you will put there is wrong, you will suffer. For example, I did not take everything into account with the oven - therefore, the facade under the oven had to be additionally milled, which was not initially included in my plans.

I bought a Gorenje oven and induction hob, an Eleyus cooker hood, a Franke Java sink, and a Grohe Blue filter mixer tap.

Firewood order (chipboard, fiberboard, facades)

I used to think that furniture production means large workshops, expensive machines, dozens of personnel. Of course it happens, but many work in garages. In order to produce furniture, you do not need to cut chipboard and make facades - dozens of people are doing this in large workshops on expensive machines. We are dear there.

The result of the design should be an Excel file containing a list of all the panels we need. Like this:

In terms of materials, my choice was:

- Chipboard Egger Cappuccino 18mm as body material
- Chipboard Egger Platinum White 16mm as a material for boxes
- Egger fiberboard for back walls
- Painted MDF as facades

Now the nuance! The company where we will come has a chipboard warehouse program - these are the options for thicknesses and colors that they constantly keep in stock in large quantities. If the chipboard you need is included in the warehouse program, you will pay for as many square meters as you need. But if it is not included, you will have to buy chipboard sheets. One sheet, in the case of Egger chipboard, is 5.8 sq.m. And if you need 6.3 sq.m. you still have to buy two sheets.

Companies that are engaged in cutting and edging chipboard, production of facades, today can be found in almost any regional center of the country. You give them drawings and money. They are for you - all your firewood in a packed form with delivery even to the apartment, although, for example, I had to sweat and drag these hundreds of kilograms from the entrance to the apartment.

Cutting and edging chipboard, fiberboard, facades, delivery - all this cost me 650 dollars.

Ordering accessories

No problem. But there is practically no point in scouring large construction hypermarkets - there is mainly an inexpensive mass market. Better to find a decent supplier of furniture fittings with a large assortment and buy everything there.

I bought:
- 12 sets for Blum Tandembox Intivo full extension drawers
- 2 hinges + bluemotion for the door under the washbasin
- 1 roll-out mesh with a closer under the oven

Detailing:

Tool purchase

In general, any handy kid already has some tools. I had to buy a Makita screwdriver, a Bosch jigsaw, clamps and a Wolfcraft jig.

I will warn you right away - there is nothing to do in furniture assembly without a screwdriver! There is a completely fucking amount of screws. And 40 bucks Chinese disposables won't help you. We need a serious, good screwdriver. Do not be stingy, in life it will come in handy more than once.

So, at the beginning of the process we have:

First of all, we will take the firewood to the balcony and sort it into the curbstones. Fortunately, each item has a sticker corresponding to the part number in the above parts list:

Well, let's start!

Almost all Italian cabinet furniture is assembled on dowels (chopiki) - the advantage of this method is that no parts of the fasteners come out, the disadvantage is that furniture assembled on dowels is non-separable. Furniture makers prefer the confirmation for such purposes - it is much less demanding in terms of tolerances.

The dowel connection requires a precision fit of the mating holes of 0.5 millimeters. This result is difficult to achieve without the use of a special tool. Therefore, such a tool was purchased:

So, our task is to collect the first curbstone and understand whether our hands grow out of the ass, or still out of the shoulders. We take the sidewall, we will make holes that will be connected to the bottom with dowels. Pay attention to the drilling depth stop on the drill. What it is for, I hope there is no need to explain. Bzzzyn:

Here's what we got:

Side holes - 40 mm. from the edges, central in the middle. The width of the sidewall (it matters, I'll tell you later) is 560 mm. The jig works in the mode of both drilling counter holes and copying. Copy to the second side. This is the principle of operation of the jig for drilling counter holes, I show it with the example of a sidebar:

Let me remind you that when connecting to dowels, the accuracy of drilling the counter holes is important (plus or minus half a millimeter). With these tools, I never had a problem with this - the parts fit into each other with little effort. This device will save you a lot of time - for the sake of interest, I tried to make manual markup on test pieces of chipboard - this is many times more time and a much higher probability of error.

Here is the bottom of the box with mating holes already drilled for the sidewalls:

I drilled 20 holes and voila, my hands don't grow out of my ass:

Moving on

Now we need to equip the cabinet with drawer guides, legs and a back wall made of fiberboard. There is nothing difficult in mounting the guides - all in the same Blum Dynalog program, you get the exact dimensions of the points where the guides will be attached. One rule applies here - measure seven times, cut one:

As simple as two and two. If you make a mistake within 3 millimeters, everything will work fine anyway. Excellent technique!

Installing the legs is also nothing complicated. The main thing is to set yourself a standard for their location and follow it on all pedestals:

Another curbstone (the widest one, 80 cm) is ripe. There are already guides and legs on it.

There is absolutely no need to worry about some flimsy of the product - as soon as the back wall is mounted, the cabinet will be filled with pleasant strength. This shows the initial stage of fixing the backdrop - the bottom is tacked with two screws on the sides, diagonals and corners are measured, the top is tacked with a clamp to the tsar. Now you can safely peel the screws (by making a preliminary drilling with a 2 mm drill):

Well, as if there is already progress:

We are preparing the facades. On the left on the facade - a drilling jig (the same Wolfcraft), to the right - a manual countersink:

The process of assembling the boxes, unfortunately, was not filmed, but with this fittings it is a very simple job. One box takes 10-15 minutes. Three hours of work and the facades are already on the boxes:

Here the jigsaw came into play - with it I sawed through the holes for the sockets, after which I siliconized the open cut. Well, I hung up the filter control unit and the holder of the filter itself:

When all the pedestals were ready, it was time to reunite them. At this stage, it is important, by adjusting the legs, to bring them to the level - that is, the top of the pedestals should lie in the same plane. We clamp the pedestals together with clamps, and be sure to make a "lining" - a wooden block into which the drill will come out. If this is not done, serious chips will appear at the outlet.

Well, we mount the hinges - crocodiles, as real furniture makers call them (I'm not real). The holes for the hinges were ordered - in general, you can make them yourself, for this there is a Faustner drill.

Brought a tabletop, Luxeform Boston 38 mm. I asked to make cutouts, they did it, but look how interesting it is:

In principle, they are right. Transporting a massive tabletop with a full cutout - risk - may break. I had to work with a jigsaw. The cut must be siliconized - the open end of the chipboard will swell quickly if this is not done. Well, here you can also see how the issue with an obtuse angle was resolved - everything is very simply leveled. Naturally, I previously made a drawing with the calculation of the geometry.

A small ambush was waiting with a sink. The instructions say "Comrade, take a core and fuck it well in the center of the sticker." On the reverse side, in the place where the holes should be, a cut was made - just like on the tabletop. I took the core, took the hammer and, carefully, bale it around the sink for $ 500. The hand did not rise, the heart sank. In general, I disdained the instructions, made holes in a circle, then baled it once, processed it with a file, and everything was fine:

I also coped with the plumbing:

Oh, how I bored myself with the choice of a tap ... Filtered water is needed, but I did not want to take out this nasty additional tap at all - I set out to find a tap with both filtered and tap water. The selection of such mixers on the market is extremely scarce. I was wildly delighted when I found such a thing as Grohe Blue. Its beauty, as it were, is that it is not only a mixer, but also a proprietary filter, and I am ready to trust such a company as Grohe blindly. In the end, we are very happy.