Jig to Install Cabinet Hardware Handles and Knobs

I will show you the perfect way to achieve cabinet knob placement with a template!

So your brand new kitchen cabinets are installed.

They await gorgeous. They are everything you ever dreamed of.

Merely there is 1 little problem.

Yous can't open them.

Yous need some knobs or pulls to make them function.

Problem is yous are terrified.

You have to actually drill holes correct through those make new cabinet doors in society to install those stunning new knobs that you so painstakingly selected.

But what if you make a mistake?

Don't panic. I take a trick.

I learned this one from my Dad and he knows 'bout this kinda stuff. He is the one who taught us how to install cabinet knobs with a template.

Thanks Dad.

And then if yous are worried most DIYing this, just relax. This easy play a joke on will have those gorgeous cabinets ready to open in no time.

Selecting the cabinets was the like shooting fish in a barrel part.

I've known since I was about half dozen months erstwhile that I wanted soft white shaker in a painted maple finish.

That decision was no problem.

Choosing the perfect knobs and pulls was much harder.

Later on hours and months and weeks and years and decades of pouring over all my options I finally settled on these beauties from build.com.

I couldn't be happier with them…

For the drawers I selected these gorgeous 3″ solid brass cup pulls by Century in a Matte Satin Nickel terminate.

I have always been a big fan of loving cup pulls. In fact, nosotros have never had a kitchen where I didn't choose cup pulls for the drawers. I even added new cup pulls to the kitchen and bath cabinets in our rental business firm.

And these cups pulls are the nicest ones I have always had. I honey them. They have such a solid feel and I love the detail of the faux screw head on each end. I feel like I could be in a Hamptons kitchen somewhere with these beauties… like, maybe fifty-fifty at Martha'due south. What practise you lot remember?

I'yard as in love with the knobs. The doors are dressed with these stunning 1-iii/8″ Clear Crystal cabinet knobs by Superlative Knobs in a Brushed Satin Nickel finish.

I experience similar they are the perfect piffling piece of jewelry added to the kitchen and add just the correct corporeality of sparkle and bling while maintaining a cottagey vintage feel to the overall space. They, likewise, have such a solid quality feel and I couldn't exist more than thrilled with them.

At present for the installation!

The play a joke on is to figure out where exactly you want your knobs and handles placed and then to build a template so that you tin easily marking where to drill on all of your drawers and doors without measuring and remeasuring and marking and remarking again and over again each time.

Hither is what nosotros started with…

Nosotros used:

– the hardware (knobs and pulls shown higher up)
– a drill and right sized drill bit for our specific hardware
– a wooden template for the doors and another 1 for the drawers
– an awl (the pointed tool that nosotros used to marker the doors through the template- y'all could likewise use a tiny pencil or pen)

To create the template…. showtime by determining where exactly yous want your knobs to sit. Cut a minor piece of sparse wood, or even a slice of paper-thin or cardstock would work. The edges of the square y'all cut will line up with the edges of the cabinet doors. We taped our template to another apartment piece of woods to make it a footling easier to agree still on the door while we marked the spot…

When done, you tin see the little marking created by the poking through the predesignated hole with the awl…

Next, just drill where you marked… being sure to use the correct size drill bit (match it to the size of your specific knobs or cabinet hardware).

And so screw the knobs on!

It's so like shooting fish in a barrel that you don't even have to modify out of your PJ pants.

Our specific knobs came with snap off screws. We needed to determine the length that we wanted them to be based on the thickness of our specific cabinet doors. The hubs used two sets of pliers to wiggle and snap the screws off at the correct point…

For the cabinet pulls we used the same kind of method. Nosotros created a template with holes predrilled at the correct width to match our cup pulls. The only difference was that we also needed to draw a line indicated the heart point on our template, and so to measure and find the centre of our drawers (the little T marks center on our template).

We decided to install all the drawer pulls at the same distance down from the acme of the shaker box, rather and so centered directly in the heart (height wise) of the drawer.

You tin can see how this looks below, both when drilled and then once the pulls were installed:

Done!

We have functional cabinets that actually open and shut thanks to the beautiful new hardware.

I love the pulls and knobs. What do you think??

Look… they open!!

I can put stuff in the cabinets and access it and so actually prepare food in a clean and functional kitchen.

Yay!

Practise you accept some hardware to install?

Don't forget this piece of cake method for how to install cabinet knobs using a template!

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Did you lot get a chance to see how the rest of the kitchen is going to be shaping up? I shared my inspiration and plans for the rest of information technology simply the other day…