Hey everybody! Hope you all had a great weekend. We’ve made some major progress on our built-in project which, if you follow us on Instagram, you may have already gotten a peek of it. We still have a little bit of finishing work to do yet, but we expect to wrap that up by the end of the week. So let’s get right to it.
Here’s how to install a built-in cabinet.
We started with the wall where the cabinet was going to be located. I had my neighbor, Mike, give me a hand with installing it since Lisa is out of commission at the moment. Being 39+ weeks pregnant will do that.
I marked the center width of the wall, the stud locations and drew some vertical and horizontal lines to index the location of the outlet.
To get the bottom cabinet to butt up against the wall, we removed the baseboard molding with a box cutter and a pry bar and transferred the outlet marks to the back of the cabinet.
To cut the hole for the outlet, I used a small drill bit to drill a hole in each corner from the back and then used a larger one from the front. Large drill bits tend to burst whatever they go through, so by drilling from the front first any bursting will be on the back.
Then it’s just a matter of centering the bottom cabinet onto the wall and using some long drywall screws with finish washers. The finish washers keep the screws from digging into the wood.
The top cabinet sits on the bottom and gets secured to the wall with a few screws as well. I waited until this point to install the doors.
We still have to wrap the bottom cabinet in baseboard molding and the top in crown. I’ll probably throw in some door pulls too.
Lisa is pretty happy with it and has already started adding some stuff to the shelves.
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