Looking Good Putting Handles On Kitchen Cabinets

On drawers and pull-out cabinets knobs are typically centered on the drawer front.

Putting handles on kitchen cabinets. Instructions Clamp some scrap wood on the back of your flat packed kitchen cabinet door where you can see brad awl indents. Cabinet knobs are placed opposite of door hinges. Or in other words the knob is placed about 2-12 from the bottom of upper cabinet doors or 2-12 from the top of a bottom cabinet door.

Using your fingers to begin with screw the screw into the fixing. While placing handle on decorative fronts rails. On wall cabinets knobs are usually placed 2-12 to 3 from the bottom corner of the door.

Measure from the top of the door if a base unit door to the centre of the top hole position. Make sure that is goes in smoothly and does not bind as you could risk cross threading it. Another option is placing handles on top rails for every drawer.

This would ruin both the screw and the handle. Handles can be fixed with screws from inside of drawer face. Youll specifically want to place them anywhere between 1 and 4 from the top or bottom edge of the door.

In this example we decided the top hole for our handle would be 55mm from the top of the door. Get a piece of cardstock or firm paper. In this step by step video from Bunnings youll learn everything yo.

Determine the distance you want the pulls to be from the corner of the door front. Place the handle on its side and with a pencil draw a line on the door where the top screw hole position is. Using a 5mm drill bit predrill holes where the factory marked indents are going straight through the scrap wood.