I ll show 8 tips to help you install new cabinet hardware.
Kitchen hardware installation. Cabinets are expensive and they look a whole lot better without extra holes. You can make templates for each drawer face size in your kitchen or you can use diagonal lines to mark the center. Center and install drawer knobs. Continue to 7 of 7 below.
When installing handles on doors and drawers tape the backs when drilling the holes to prevent tear out. Knobs are centered on drawer faces. Install hardware higher on the lowest drawer most drawer pulls are centered on the drawer fronts but if the cabinet you re working on has two or three drawers the same size and one larger one at the bottom install the bottom knob or pull higher than the center of that drawer front. Gorgeous perfectly centered kitchen hardware.
For the knobs we again looked at placement options in many many kitchens and decided that we would line up the middle of the knob with the horizontal trim piece on the cabinet face and center it on the vertical trim piece. There s more to installing kitchen hardware than drilling holes and screwing on knobs and pulls. The spruce david schiff. Whether or not you do this it s important to use a spirit level to make sure all the handles are aligned.
Put the short screw through the back of the door thread on the knob and tighten with a screwdriver. How to install cabinet hardware.