These contractors specialize in building cabinets for new homes, remodeled older homes, professional offices and commercial buildings. Professionally built, hand made cabinets, will add additional value and beeauty to your home or office. If you need new cabinets, or your old cabinets need to be repaired, refinished or replaced, please call one of the cabinet makers listed below.
If you are just looking for ideas for colors, wood types and finishes for cabinets, try visiting the Wood Web website for ideas. There are also some national woodworking and cabinetry assocciations located on the web. If you are interested in getting more information about national woodworking and cabinetry assocciations, then visit the Cabinet Makers Assocciation or the Architectural Woodwork Institute today.
How To Measure Cabinets
Measuring Doors
When refacing a European kitchen, we recommend that you do not measure the old doors from the outside
because the doors may have molded edges. Measure from the inside to get the most accurate
measurement.
First measure the actual inside width of the door and then measure the height then write your
measurements down. Your new doors will maintain the same size as your old doors.
Measuring Drawers
To measure your drawers, follow the same process you used for the doors. You will be more accurate if
you measure along the inside edge. First measure the width and then measure the height. Be sure to
write these measurements down.
Hinging Specifications
When planning for your door order, you will need to indicate which side of each door you want bored
and if it is left or right facing. To do this, stand facing the closed door and then write down which
side the hinge is on if the door is square with no arch, the side that gets bored is not important.
The holes for the hinges are bored three and a half inches from the center of the hole to the top and
bottom edge of the door by default. It is important at this time to know that your new doors should
not be screwed on the same drill holes as your old doors.
If the distance of the hole on the existing door was not three and a half inches so the default
distance will work fine. If these holes were three and a half inches, you will need to offset this
distance by adding three quarters of an inch upward or downward before writing these measurements
down. For example, the new distances could be two and quarters of an inch or four and a quarter of an
inch.
Measuring Panels/Sheets
If you have a table saw and a router, we recommend that you use four by eight sheets of plywood
veneer. To order these, measure every panel in your kitchen and determine how many four by eight
sheets you'll need. This will save you money and allow you to optimize the use of the material.
You'll also be able to cut pieces a little bigger to compensate for gaps if the cabinet boxes were
poorly installed. When measuring for four by eight sheets, be sure to order an extra sheet to play it
safe.
If you don't have a table saw and router, you will need to provide precise measurements of every side
panel on your order form. These measurements will be used to pre-cut your plywood veneer to the
correct sizes. To measure, just measure the cabinet box side not including any gap between the box
and the wall. If you include the gap in your measurement, you may end up with an undesired front edge
that will require some extra effort to even out. Be sure to measure the width and height of each
panel. And like you have done for the doors, write it down on your measurement sheet. Keep in mind
when measuring, that the height of the panel should be measured in the direction of the grain and the
width should be measured across the grain.
