The facades for the kitchen with his hands

If you want to change the boring atmosphere in the kitchen, not necessarily buy new furniture.Enough to change the facades and your "study" transformed.Kitchen fronts are available in a specialized workshop, but more interesting and cheaper to do everything with their own hands.Read our article and transform the space around them according to their taste and without big investments.

materials for the kitchen fronts

choosing the material for the implementation of the planned project should focus not only on the outside of its beauty, but also on the qualitative characteristics.In another way, because the kitchen furniture is operated under more severe conditions than, for example, bedroom.

requirements for kitchen fronts

To facades of kitchen furniture remained decent view as long as possible, the material from which they are made, must possess the following qualities:

• moisture resistance;
• resistance to high temperatures;
• easy to care for;
• strength;
• resistance to mechanical damage to the character.

materials for the kitchen fronts

materials for the manufacture of kitchen set of facades.They all have their own characteristics and properties:

1. laminated chipboard.Obtained by applying a conventional adhesive layer chipboard and paper-resin film.Unfortunately, this beautiful and inexpensive material is short-lived because of low wear resistance.
2. Plastic.The DSP is also based, but coverage is more expensive, so it is more reliable, is highly resistant to mechanical damage, it has a large range of colors, humidity resistant, but can not be restoration after damage.
3. tree.These facades are solid and noble.They are performed in a variety of styles, subject to restoration, and repeatedly, environmentally friendly.They are made of birch, oak, walnut, ash, cherry, pear, exotic species.As a finish applied patined lacquered sostarivanie, painting.
4. Glass.The facade is completely glass or decorated glass inserts, decorated with patterns or colored, tinted, coated with a photo image.Sometimes safety is adhered to the inside of the reinforcing film, some manufacturers use unbreakable plexiglass.
5. Stone.Applied as inserts.Terrific looks facades are combined with stone countertops.The main drawback - they are very heavy, for their installation requires enhanced fixation.
6. MDF.The service life of this material is at least 6 years.The structure, as well as some of the characteristics it resembles natural wood, but much cheaper.In addition, it can not be deformation, clean, well-kept fittings.

Choosing the material should be a common kitchen style in mind.For a futuristic high-tech most suitable option - the facades of MDF as a gloss and film.In the kitchen the classic look organically painted aluminum profiles, wood, stained glass windows.In a small room inappropriate deaf dark facades, better to stop the choice on the doors with glass - transparent or frosted white.

facades for the kitchen from wood

Wooden kitchen facades, emitting a special warmth and comfort are the most popular.They are related to the elite category.

The category includes two types of fronts:

1. Veneer - a slab of fiberboard and whether MDF, veneer, that is,from expensive wood plates.They cost less than the facades from an array, but look attractive, they are easy to handle.
2. Massive - made of wood, pre-treated with special technology.Sometimes facades coated thread artificially sostarivayut applying patina, making kitchen furniture into works of art.

The cheapest among the facades for the kitchen of the array are the ones that are made of pine.Expensive, elite facades are made of mahogany, wenge and cedar.

A selection of photos of facades for the kitchen made of wood

Facades of aluminum

aluminum facades for the kitchen look stylish,modern, interesting, perfectly combined with other materials.They have many advantages:

• not fade in the sun;
• resistant to temperature changes and moisture;
• durable;
• light;
• environmentally friendly.

Furthermore, aluminum cookware door can be done not only swing, but also sliding.

There are disadvantages:

• greater cost than the facades from MDF, plastic and other synthetic materials;
• fades with time;
• defect from contact with sharp objects and from the use of abrasive cleaners.

Types of aluminum facades

Facades of this material are of two types:

1. solid or slab.Made of a single sheet of polished aluminum.Well combined with appliances having a chrome surface.
2. Framework - a structure consisting:

• of the frame;
• filler;
• fixing;
• accessories.

as filling material used glass inserts, wood, plastic, PVC, MDF, particle board, or a combination thereof.

Good to know: another advantage of the facade of aluminum profiles is that the frame disassembled, so its content can be changed.

facades for kitchens MDF

This group of facades - the most numerous.There are several types of facades:

• Veneer - surface visually difficult to distinguish from real wood.
• Painted - glossy surface, it looks perfect in any interior.The product is first primed and then coated with several enamel layers.Surface enamel facades from MDF can be matte, glossy, silky, pearly, shimmering.They do not absorb moisture, but when exposed to ultraviolet rays, the painted surface burns.
• Laminate - analogue version of chipboard covered with PVC film imitating marble, plastic, wood, metal and other materials.They are relatively inexpensive, but they have one unpleasant quality - under the influence of moisture and hot air, the film lags behind the base.
• Plastic - durable, not afraid of hot air, but the surface is very smooth - other options are possible.

Acrylic facades for kitchens

basis of these facades is MDF or particle board covered with polymethyl acrylate, which is a plastic produced by special technology.The surface turns out perfect gloss.. The thickness of the acrylic coating about 0.2 cm, the whole plate - 1.6-1.8 cm Acrylic fronts operate in two versions:

• unilateral, when the plate is covered with acrylic just outside;
• bilateral - acrylic coating is present from 2 sides.

in demand these facades due to a number of positive qualities:

• surface is perfectly smooth, glossy;
• resistance to all kinds of high deformations;
• color deep, saturated, stable to changes in environmental stress;
• heavy metals, carcinogens in the composition absent.

How to make the facades for the kitchen with his hands

Can furniture made with their hands in something inferior to that which is sold in furniture stores, but it is exclusive and not so expensive.Most often make their own facades for kitchens from solid, paneled, chipboard.

Making facades for the kitchen from wood

In order to manufacture wooden facade need a wooden shield 2-3 cm thick and edged pine 20 cm wide, furniture, stain, varnish, screws, as well as the following tools:

• mallet (1);
• set of saws - bow-shaped frame (2), grooves (31), Tenoning (32), locksmith small handsaw (33);
• clamp (3);
• cross clamp (4);
• metal ruler (5);
• jointer (6);
• hammer metalwork (7);
• bevel (8);
• marking gauge (9);
• gon (10);
• file (11);
• turning tool (12);
• plane (13);
• plane socket (14);
• tape (15);
• compasses - dividing and easy (16, 17);
• pencil (18);
• knives -large, small (19, 20);
• Forstner drill, spiral (21, 23);
• screwdriver cruciform (22);
• chisel used for drilling plugs (24);
• countersink (25);
• Allen keys (26), adjustable (28);
• Round (27);
• electrosolderers (29);
• with faceted chisel blade (30).

Attention: The wood must be dry, is allowed a maximum of 10% humidity.Boards with large knots, resin pockets, cracks, insect damage is not suitable.

all begins with measurement and drafting.To open cabinet doors normally be accurately calculate the width of the facade.It is equal to the value of the opening plus 1 mm.Then we carry out the work according to the following technologies:

1. Spread boards on a wide flat table, fix and transfer the measurements to the project, marking out the line of the cut.
2. Cut all the elements.
3. grind the workpiece.
4. We clean the ends, using sandpaper.
5. carry out fixing holes.
6. Apply antiseptic.
7. connecting parts, which ends on workpieces to apply the adhesive, align the corners, hold all the clamp until it dries.
8. Treat the stain facade.
9. varnish 2-3 times, each time removing the unevenness with fine sandpaper.
10. Fasten hinge fittings, which:

• determine where the hinges will be placed on the walls of the enclosure;
• note the installation location of fasteners on the facade;
• fasten the hinges to the front;
• insert the door into place and fasten to the body so that when the closing was left gaps and distortions.

Making paneled facades

To update your kitchen with paneled facades, have to buy a board about 20 mm thick frame and plywood 6 mm thick panels.The sequence of this:

• produce a frame for what Scrollsaw 2 vertical and 2 horizontal parts;
• frame elements to make the inner side grooves to a depth of 10 mm and a width of 0.6 cm;
• cut out of plywood panel - internal panel;
• carry on the horizontal elements of the frame spikes width of 0.6 cm and a length of 10 mm;
• grind all the elements, includingtenons and slots;
• put on a panel on the frame, customize landing;
• Apply glue in the grooves on the spikes, the ends of the panels;
• collect facade by inserting a panel into the slots frame, fix the screws further compounds;
• leave to dry;
• grind connection points;
• Apply antiseptic composition;
• perform finishing;
• fasten loops set in place, mount fittings.

Note: plywood can be replaced by glass, MDF, forged parts, polycarbonate plastic.

facades for kitchens in aluminum frame with his hands

Facades of aluminum combines two materials - a frame made of aluminum and a panel.Such a tandem prevents deformation increases durability.

to make their own hands a facade of acting on such algorithm:

1. Cut a panel from any liked the material, and do it more than 2 cm on both the length and width.If it's chipboard or MDF, is pasted on top of plastic, loads evenly on top and give dry.
2. aluminum profile Select the appropriate section.
3. crop, taking into account the thickness of the profile.Measure out the profile, wherein, when the planned clearance angles using decorative corners, the length of the profile is equal to the corresponding size of the panels edges.For the manufacture of the frame without corners, cut blanks longer than the edge of the insert in two thickness profile.For example, the insertion length is 500 mm, the thickness of the aluminum frame 4 mm, while the workpiece length is 500 + 8 = 508 mm.It is necessary to join strips at an angle.
4. Fasten profile to the panel by means of staples or small nails.
5. Cut the plastic insert on the length of the profile, insert it into the slot at one end and pushes the closing, thus fixing.
6. in establishing the scope of the decorative insert corner, cut the end profile and butted the two parts.
7. In this way, we do a full frame, but the last 2 parts mount simultaneously to be able to issue a joint area.If no corners, so we proceed:

• cut a piece of material intended for insertion at an angle of 45 degrees;
• dress shear profile, cut saw.

Details and some nuances in this video:

All materials for the manufacture of kitchen fronts have their pros and cons.Some are cheap, but short-lived, others - will last for many years, but the cost is expensive, but you can save considerably by performing the facades of expensive high-quality materials with their own hands.Experienced furniture makers offer this instructional video: