Video on how to build a do-it-yourself kitchen, or how we remade the kitchen with many hours of work and little money.
Fir kitchen in a modern style, made of three-layer panels for a few reasons: I prefer simple and linear things, easier to make and very durable, and I also hate veneers. (My girlfriend thanks, because it is also very easy and quick to clean;))
For the realization about 4 panels of spruce 2.5 x 5 meters of 19 mm were used, cut to size and edged (I say infascetted), milled in the back for housing the back.
For the backs instead a 10mm multilayer poplar panel was used (you can't see them anyway) because obviously it costs less.
Once the cuts were completed, we pinned the various pieces to be able to assemble them, installed the hinges and the drawer guides, for these I chose the slowed blums, tested the assembly and proceeded to sand everything with 2 passes sandpaper, the first pass with 120 grit and the second pass with 240 grit.
At this point we reassembled the pieces and glued with polyurethane glue, in addition to gluing we applied a million torx wood screws in all possible places (hidden of course).
After that we moved on to the painting phase, with sealers, water-based varnish and 3 coats of final two-component varnish, always transparent (protective).
We carry out the millings for the under-cabinet led strips (we could have done it before but I was doubtful whether to put them or not).
Once the kitchen was transported home, we then started the assembly on site, first with the living room furniture, after the disassembly of the old kitchen, then we mounted the wall units above the sink, here the first inconvenience is the wall was more out of square than expected, despite our many calculations it was not easy to find the right way to fix them.
We then moved to the lower part, first joining the various cabinets, then fitting them together, at this point the second problem, the drains were not under the sink, so we had to break the wall, call the plumber to move the water connections and the drains, fortunately the intervention lasted only a couple of hours.
The worktop is an inexpensive Ikea top, the only one that had a depth of 63cm so as to be more external than the handles.
We cut the worktop, place it and drill the holes for the sink and hob and finish by fixing the top.
We then proceed with the insertion of the various appliances, refrigerator (which has always been in operation), oven, dishwasher, stove and of course sink (I had to order the hood on 4 different sites and it took 4-5 months to have it ).
Finally, the large shelf and the various lights, under-cabinet LEDs and spotlights were installed.
Final touches, assembly of handles and adjustments of drawers and doors.
Since the angle of the kitchen wall was not at 90 degrees, we had to use a trick, to correct the problem, plasterboard panels fixed to the wall were installed to recover the angle and make it 90 degrees.
We then install the kitchen extractor hood, an operation that I have not filmed. The initial idea was to use the existing chimney for the extractor hood, but I had to discard it as the hood was too powerful and the corrugated pipe we had put above the wall units was 80 mm, while the minimum required by the hood was 120 mm, it was necessary to carry out a core drill behind the hood to the outside, otherwise with the choke the hood made a lot of noise.
After positioning the hood I was able to call the tiler to lay the kitchen cladding in 3mm kerlite, cutlery and grout the tiles, finally the kitchen is complete as you see it.
I would be curious to know what Stefano il Falegname, Mattley, Makers At Work, Controvena and the other Italian RU-vidrs think.
Music Jarico - Landscape
Fredji - Happy Life
Sourced by Jason Farnham Royalty Free
4 окт 2024