With your own hands

The kitchen is one of the most significant rooms in the dwelling of any family. For maximum convenience and comfort, it should be equipped not only with beautiful, but also with functional furniture, such as, for example, a buffet. And in order for the interior to turn out to be original, you can make it yourself by putting your soul into the work, using any materials. This article will talk about how to build a buffet or a sideboard for the kitchen with your own hands.

What materials can be made from the kitchen buffet

Coals and buffets for the kitchen have no big differences and are very similar to each other, because The ancestor of both is considered a closet. The only difference is that the buffet was used only to store dishes, and in the sideboard, in addition to it, tablecloths, napkins, towels and other table linen were stored in the sideboard. And another buffet, unlike the sideboard, has a niche.

The modern market offers a large spectrum of various types of raw materials different in price and quality. Before making a choice in favor of one of them, you need to carefully study the properties and characteristics of these materials and compare with the qualities that kitchen furniture should have.

Its surface, first of all, should be waterproof, because In the process of cooking, the water constantly evaporates, increasing humidity in the room.

The most popular materials today are chipboard, MDF, fiberboard and wood massif. Let's talk more about each of them:

• Wood-steam plate (chipboard). It is produced by compressing wood chips with phenol -formaldehyd or urea -formaldehyde resin. This material is widespread due to its cheapness, as well as hardness, fortresses and water -repellent properties. In addition, the chipboard is very easily processed and the wood holds the nails better. This material has a rich palette of colors and textures.

Unfortunately, the chipboard has a number of serious disadvantages. This material can distinguish in the atmosphere of substances dangerous for human health. This effect is enhanced under the influence of temperature, therefore, if a decision is made on the use of chipboard, you can not have furniture from it near heating devices.

Still, the material has some features that do not allow to make small and curved decor elements from it.

• MDF or MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard), which means from English means - wood -fiber plate of medium density. As well as DSP is made by pressing, only from smaller sawdust and without the use of resins. Lignin is used as a binder. It is released from wood under the influence of high temperatures.

MDF is an environmentally friendly material that is absolutely harmless to people and animals. It is even more resistant to a humid environment than chipboard, so it is most suitable for the kitchen.

MDF is both durable and soft material at the same time. This property makes it possible to make decorative elements of the facades from it.

The disadvantages of this material include perhaps a higher cost compared to chipboard.

• Born -fiber plate (DVP). For its production, the remains of wood obtained in the processing or manufacture of something are used. They are split into fibers that are impregnated with glue and formed from them. They are exposed to high temperature and after is grinded.

DVP is not afraid of humidity and high temperature, has strength and lightness, have a long service life and at the same time a low cost. They hold the fasteners well and amenable to milling.

This material is mainly used for the manufacture of the rear walls of the cabinets and the bottom of the boxes.

• Wood array. This material is natural and environmentally friendly. This is its main advantage. The properties directly depend on the breed of the used wood. For example, pine is characterized by high strength characteristics, not complicated in processing, easily glued. The larch has water -repellent properties. Oak is not subject to decay, but at the same time it is difficult to coating varnish.

A natural tree buffet will look rich and elegant, but at the same time, it will cost a much larger amount than the above materials. To get a beautiful product and at the same time not to spend too much, you can make a furniture housing from cheaper raw materials, such as chipboard, and facades made of more expensive and beautiful.

The tool required for the manufacture of a bureau for the kitchen with your own hands

As mentioned above, a sideboard or cabinet for the kitchen can be made with your own hand, without resorting to the help of professionals and without spending money on it. The product can be a rack open or having a back wall, a buffet or a sideboard with doors, etc. The scope for imagination is not limited.

Before starting work, you need to stock up on a certain set of tools necessary for its successful execution:

• circular saw;
• lobby;
• grinding machine;
• drill;
• screwdriver;
• milling machine;
• varnish coating for wooden surfaces;
• drill on wood;
• a sheet for grinding, whose abrasiveness is in the range from 120 to 240 units;
• sticky tape;
• roulette;
• pencil for recordings and markings;
• a vice for fixing the processed parts;
• the drawing (it must be made before the start of work. It should clearly show all the necessary measurements, quantity, size, thickness of the parts, place of their connection, etc.).

Instructions for independent manufacture of a buffet

Modern buffets for the kitchen can be made, guided by a phased description of this process:

• Drilling holes in the lateral details. The holes should be 5 mm in diameter and are located in two rows on the inner plane of external side parts, and on both sides on the lower partitions.

To carry out this, you need to draw a line, retreating 3.7 cm from the front and rear edge. Holes will be built on it. It should be noted in the line the place of each of them at the same distance from each other. The standard gap between them is 32 mm.

In order not to accidentally drill the lateral part, it is necessary to use the depth limiter, which is attached directly at the drill and helps to regulate it. The holes themselves should have a depth of one centimeter.

If, after independent manufacture of the buffet, you will taste and want to make other furniture items yourself, it is best to buy a template to control the right distance between the holes. The template is motionless on a wooden plate, and the holes are drilled directly through it. The use of the template facilitates the task, makes it possible to make holes strictly vertically and with the same intervals.

• Connection of external sidewalls and partitions. The side parts and the upper and lower partitions are set down by the ends, so as they appear in the assembled form. After that, on the rear edges with a pencil, you need to put marks in order to further understand what part is applied to. You also need to mark the grounds.

Next, the upper bases and partitions must be put on the rear ends, as they will be connected to each other. All parameters must be taken into account and recorded in the drawing that you will create before starting work. Parts need to be squeezed in a vice to avoid their sliding and shift. It should be remembered that dents from them may appear on the surface of the tree, and lay wooden scraps.

After that, mark the places in which the partitions lay on the basis. In the base, in the center of the contour of the partitions, you need to drill a pair of holes of 4 mm in diameter. The interval between them and the outer edges should be at least 3 cm. The holes in the bases should be separated (before that, the holes for the threaded connection in the covering plate are also the same, connect them from the bottom).

Now you can combine the bases with partitions using secret screws and screwdrivers.

To prepare a threaded connection of two wooden elements, the hole for the screw is better drilled using a drill exceeding its diameter by 0.5-1 mm; It needs to be unscrewed to plant the screw head. It is better to drill the second part using a 1 mm drill already screw.

• Connection of external lateral parts and the upper part of the structure. Put the collected upper part on the rear ends. Apply the side parts and the bottom of the future buffet as you are going to connect them. With a pencil, mark the places in which the contours of the bases are in contact with the sidewalls.

Focusing on the center of markings, drill two holes of 4 mm each and divide them under the screws from the outside. This must be done as accurately as possible so as not to spoil the appearance of the product.

When all the holes are ready to only connect them with secret screws and a screwdriver.

• Installation of internal structural elements. Install the case of the product on the rear ends. Place the contacts of the lower partitions and the bases with a pencil, as it was described above. In the lower base, drill in the center of the circuit for each partition by a pair of four -millimeter holes. Deping them on the bottom.

Wash the lower part of the partitions to the base with screws, and the upper ones with fixing corners. Set on both sides of each sidewall one corner of flush with the surface. Then set the partitions between the bases and combine with hidden screws through the lower base, as well as through the fasteners. The second paragraph of this instruction describes how to carry out a threaded connection.

• Assembly of the basement elements and its connection. All parts of the basement should be placed on the surface as they will subsequently attached, and marked the edge with a pencil to see where which part should join.

Drill holes for the threaded connection in the panels and bars of the basement. The panels join each other using bars located in the corners in an upright position. Elements of the basement are attached, according to the drawing, using a screwdriver.

Next, you need to make holes in the planks, due to which the base will be attached to the body, and fix them using the same tools. After assembling the basement, it is screwed to the body.

• Joining the covering slab to the body. In the second point of the instructions, you already drilled holes in order to attach the covering plate to the body. First, attach it to where it will be located, leave the protrusions 0.5 cm on the sides, and ahead of 2 cm in front and back.

• Connection of the back wall. It can be attached either with dowels and glue, or with the help of fasteners and screws. Scrap them with a screwdriver on the outer side parts of the case from the inside, flush with the rear edge, or to the inner planes of the base on the right and left.

Put the body on the side surface. Place the back wall, as it will join it. Fasten it with a vice and fasten it from the inside with the help of corner fasteners.

• Joining loops and doors. Having placed the doors on the desktop, make a pencil marking so as not to confuse the right with the left, the top with the bottom. It should also be noted the lines where there will be places of the loops. The lines should pass through the centers of holes located in two rows.

Turn the structure on the side and attach the door to it at an angle of 90 degrees. After that, you can easily mark it. From the first door, the line is transferred to the second, using the ruler. For installation you will need curved loops. The holes for them should be 4 cm from the edge. Mark 4 holes on pencil lines and drill them using a wood drill, the diameter of which exceeds 1.2 cm.

Insert the loops into the holes and screw them with screws. Install them in two holes going into a row. Put the body on the side, attach the door to it at an angle of 90 degrees. Break it along the sidewall. Connection and fix the holders of the loops on the load -bearing slabs. Make holes under the handles and attach them.

• Now it remains only to polish the surfaces (to process them as best as possible, it is advisable to do this before the assembly) and cover them with special wax, while observing safety precautions.

Such a item of kitchen atmosphere as a buffet is now at the peak of popularity. It is practical and universal, thanks to the many styles, forms and configurations created by designers.

Large and massive, narrow and light, with and without windows, rectangular and corner buffets for the kitchen are its decoration, and due to their diversity, are able to fit into any interior.