How to make a DIY do-it-yourself buffet
Wood is a wonderful material for making furniture: durable, aesthetic and durable. The products made from it are elegant and practical, and if they are made by hand, it will be especially pleasant and loved, as the home artist puts his love for home and family into the work.
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The advantages of creating your own hands
If the house master is "friends" with carpentry tools, it will not be difficult for him to deliver a pleasant hostess and make a buffet with his own hands, which is necessary in any kitchen.
A self-made kitchen cupboard has a number of advantages over its “shop brothers”:
- for it, you can choose a unique design;
- choose the material to your liking;
- use original fittings;
- choose the color palette of the buffet, the most well suited to the kitchen interior.
In addition, wood products are extremely beneficial to health: they do not contain toxic compounds in their composition and do not emit harmful substances, but they fill the room with aromas of essential oils.
Wooden sideboard - durable and comfortable. It will last for decades, 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 the original configuration and dimensions that most fully meet the convenience and comfort.
We determine the design and construction
Independent production of a kitchen cupboard opens up a wide field for the home craftsman’s fantasy. He can do it, in accordance with his visions and ideas, in various styles:
- retro;
- high tech;
- art;
- minimalism and others.
The design of cabinets can also be very diverse, including corner and round.
Necessary materials
In a friendly family of kitchen furniture, the buffet occupies a special place - it reigns in the kitchen and bears in itself the features of an elegant sideboard and a regular cupboard for dishes. Previously, furniture was made “for centuries”, therefore, for its manufacturing, we chose the most durable and high-quality wood, well seasoned and processed.
Today's offer of building materials allows you to choose the option you want to make a buffet with your own hands. But one of the most popular foundations for kitchen furniture is steel MDF, fiberboard, chipboard and solid wood. The latter does not require additional characteristics, differing in strength, durability, beauty. As for the 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 not difficult to handle. Buffet of such material can be quickly assembled. It can be made functional and visually appealing. Most often, these plates are used to install the rear walls of wall cabinets, drawers and shelves.
- Chipboard is presented in a variety of colors. This is a durable and inexpensive material from which you can make a comfortable spacious and original cabinet that is easy to fit into any kitchen interior. Among the significant drawbacks are emissions 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 made according to modern technologies, therefore 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 that allows you to make from it a variety of decor for furniture fronts buffets, give the products a variety of shapes. The only drawback is considered to be a fairly high price, compared to the cost of chipboard.
- Wood is a special chic and demonstration of high taste. Environmentally friendly, natural material.
For the manufacture of buffets most often used the following tree species:
- pine, durable and easy to handle;
- larch, strong and not subject to the ravages of moisture;
- oak, almost eternal, not rotting and does not require treatment with varnish.
Depending on the place where the do-it-yourself cupboard will be installed, you can use different materials. To the cottage or summer kitchen, you can make a kitchen cupboard of plastic, simple in design and inexpensive.
The original buffet in the mansion’s kitchen, made of MDF or solid wood, with unusual shelves and niches, will look expensive and presentable.
Required Tools
To make a buffet for the kitchen to your liking, you need an individual set of tools, but among them there are those without which you can not do, no matter what material, design and configuration of the product the master chooses.
Standard set:
- drill;
- wood drills;
- jigsaw;
- a circular saw;
- Sander;
- screwdriver
and other tools and devices that should be at hand.
Manufacturing process: step by step instructions
Before you take up the tools, you need to clearly understand what kind of coffee shop you will be doing, and reflect your thoughts and ideas on the drawing, indicating all the details of the product.
First, the largest elements of the product, which form its basis, are prepared according to the available drawings, taking into account the necessary parameters. In order not to disturb the order of assembly and not to lose the necessary parts, home craftsmen with experience advise all parts to be numbered.
After finishing the preparatory work, the cabinet is assembled in the following order.
- Preparation of side parts of furniture, drilling holes in them. It is worth paying attention to the advice of experienced craftsmen recommending the use of the depth stop to control the distance between the grooves. Its use allows you to protect furniture parts from through drilling.
- Buffet Partitioning
- Connection of the upper part of the product and the outer side parts. The top of the product is located on the end mounts, and the sides and bottom are pushed to the stop.
- Installation of internal parts. First, the body of the buffet is mounted on the rear ends. Screws are used to fasten the lower part, and the fixing angles are used to connect it to the upper part.
- Assembly of basement parts and their mounting. To mark the plinth, a drawing of kitchen furniture is used, according to which the panels are fixed on the bars located at the corners of the structure.
- Registration of front part. The slab is placed in its place, and the sides are left with projections of the required size. They are needed for hanging the doors and fixing the back panel.
- Fixing the back wall. Buffet body is laid out on its side to secure the canvas in the desired position.
- Installation of doors and hinges. Labels mark the left and right doors, bottom and top, after which the hinges are set on the marked marks. Cabinet doors are mounted on their seats, 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.
Buffet decoration
The final stage in the manufacture of a unique, custom-made kitchen cabinet will be its decoration. Here can be used:
- ready accessories;
- wooden or metal decor products, made by hand;
- ornaments and color decoupage images;
- photographs, decorations of glass and plastic;
- original decor products, custom-made or custom-made, depending on the style of the product.
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