Facades for the kitchen do it yourself

If you want to change the boning setting in the kitchen, it is not necessary to buy new furniture. It is enough to change the facades and your "working office" will be transformed. Kitchen facades can be ordered in a specialized workshop, but more interesting and cheaper do it yourself. Read our article and transform the space around yourself in accordance with your taste and without latter investments.

Materials for kitchen facades

Choosing a material for the implementation of the planned project, it is necessary to navigate not only on the external beauty, but also for qualitative characteristics. There is no other way, because the furniture kitchen is operated in more stringent conditions than, for example, room.

Requirements for kitchen facades

So that the facades of kitchen furniture retained a decent view as long as possible, the material from which they are made should have the following qualities:

• moisture resistance;
• resistant to high temperatures;
• ease of care;
• strength;
• sustainability of mechanical damage.

Materials for kitchen facades

Materials for the manufacture of kitchen facades set. All of them have their own features and properties:

1. Cascized wood-chip. They are obtained by applying a layer of glue and a paper-resin film to the usual chipboard. Unfortunately, this beautiful and inexpensive material is short-lived due to low wear resistance.
2. Plastic. Also lies with a chipboard, but the coating is more expensive, so it is more reliable, it opposes mechanical damage well, has a large range of colors, moisture-resistant, but cannot be restored after damage.
3. Wood. These facades are solid and noble. Performed in various styles, subject to restoration, and repeated, eco-friendly. They are made of birch, oak, nut, ash, cherries, pears, exotic rocks. The finishing is applied patting, varnishing, formation, coloring.
4. Glass. The facade is a glass completely or decorated with glass inserts, decorated with patterns or painted, tinted with applied photo image. Sometimes the reinforcing film is glued for safety from the inside, some manufacturers apply the unbreakable plexiglass.
5. Stone. Apply as inserts. Such facades in combination with a stone countertop look amazing. The main disadvantage is very heavy, it requires an enhanced fastening.
6. MDF. The service life of this material is at least 6 years. Structure, as well as some characteristics, it resembles natural wood, but much cheaper. In addition, it is not amenable to deformation, environmentally friendly, well holds fasteners.

Choosing the material should take into account the overall kitchen style. For a futuristic high-tech, the most suitable option - facades from MDF as glossy and film. In the kitchen classic organically painted aluminum profiles, wood, stained glass windows. In the room there is a small inappropriate deaf dark facades, it is better to stop the choice on the doors with glasses - transparent or white matte.

Tree kitchen facades

Wooden kitchen facades, emitting special warmth and comfort, are the most sought-after. They refer to the category of elite.

The category includes 2 types of facades:

1. Veneered - these are plates from DVP and whether MDF lined with veneer, i.e. Plates of expensive wood. They cost cheaper than facades from the array, but they look attractive, they are easy to handle them.
2. Massive - made from natural wood, previously processed by special technology. Sometimes threads are applied to the facades, artificially etched by applying a patina, turning kitchen furniture in artwork.

The cheapest among the facades for the kitchen from the massif are those that are made of pine. Dear, elite facades are made of mahogany, wenge, cedar.

Selection of photos of facades for a kitchen made of wood

Facades from aluminum

Aluminum facades for the kitchen look stylish, modernly, it is interesting, perfectly combined with other materials. They have many advantages:

• do not burn out in the sun;
• resistant to temperature differences and moisture;
• durable;
• lungs;
• environmentally safe.

In addition, kitchen aluminum doors can be made not only swing, but also sliding.

There are disadvantages:

• big value than that of facades from MDF, plastic and other artificial materials;
• dull over time;
• the damage to contact with acute objects and from the use of abrasive cleaning products.

Types of aluminum facades

Facades from this material are two types:

1. Solid or slab. Performed from a solid sheet of polished aluminum. Well combined with household appliances having chrome surfaces.
2. Frame - This is a design consisting:

• from the frame;
• aggregate;
• fastenings;
• accessories.

Inserts from glass, wood, plastic, PVC, MDF, chipboard, or combinations are used as a filling material.

Good to know: Another advantage of the facade of the aluminum profile is that the frame is understandable, so its filling can be changed.

Kitchen facades from MDF

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

• Veneered - a visually surface is difficult to distinguish from a natural tree.
• Painted - glossy surface, looks perfect in any interior. The product is first ground, then cover enamel in several layers. The surface of enameled facades from MDF is matte, glossy, silky, pearl, flickering. They do not absorb moisture, but under the influence of ultraviolet rays, the painted surface burns out.
• Laminated is an analogue of an election of a chipboard, covered with PVC film, imitating marble, plastic, wood, metal and other materials. They are relatively inexpensive, but have one unpleasant quality - under the influence of moisture and heated air, the film is lagging behind the base.
• Plastic - durable, not afraid of hot air, but the surface is exceptionally smooth - other options are impossible.

Acrylic facades for kitchen

The basis of these facades is a MDF plate or chipboard, coated with polymethylacrylate, which is plastic obtained by special technology. The surface is perfectly glossy. The thickness of the acrylic coating is about 0.2 cm, the entire plate is 1.6-1.8 cm. Acrylic facades are performed in two versions:

• one-sided when the stove is covered with acrylic only outside;
• two-sided - acrylic coating is present from 2 sides.

These facades are in demand due to a number of positive qualities:

• the surface is perfectly smooth, glossy;
• resistance to all sorts of deformations is high;
• deep colors, rich, resistant to changes under the influence of the environment;
• heavy metals, carcinogens are absent.

How to make facades for the kitchen with their own hands

Maybe the furniture made by their own hands is inferior to the one that is sold in furniture salons, but it is exclusive and not so expensive. Most often independently make facades for a kitchen made of array, viper, from chipboard.

Production of facades for a wooden kitchen

In order to make a wooden facade, a wooden shield of a thickness of 2-3 cm or a cutting board of a pine 20 cm, accessories, a storm, lacquer, self-tapping screw, and the following tool:

• kiyanka (1);
• a set of saws is a bias (2), a grocery (31), nipsens (32), the hacksaw Malaya plumbing (33);
• clamp (3);
• transverse clamp (4);
• metal line (5);
• fuganok (6);
• loafer hammer (7);
• malka (8);
• raysmus (9);
• square (10);
• file (11);
• lathe cutter (12);
• stroke (13);
• furniture end (14);
• roulette (15);
• circular - dividing and simple (16, 17);
• pencil (18);
• knives - Little, Small (19, 20);
• forster drill, spiral (21, 23);
• crusading screwdriver (22);
• cutter used for drilling plugs (24);
• zenkovka (25);
• torch keys (26), adjustable (28);
• circumgins (27);
• electric equipment (29);
• the chisel with a faceted blade (30).

Attention: Wood must be dry, a maximum of 10% of humidity is allowed. Boards with large bitch, resin pockets, cracks, damage to insects are not suitable.

We start everything from measurements and preparation of the project. So that the doors of the cabinets opened normally should accurately calculate the width of the facade. It equals the magnitude of the opening plus 1 mm. Further perform work on the following technology:

1. We lay out the boards on a wide level table, fix and transfer measurements from the project, placing cutting lines.
2. Cut all the elements.
3. Spit blanks.
4. We clean the ends using emery paper.
5. We perform holes for fasteners.
6. We apply an antiseptic.
7. We connect the parts for which the gloves are applied to the ends of the billets, align the angles, clamp everything in the clamp until it does not dry.
8. We process the facade of the mourn.
9. Covering varnish times 2-3, each time removing the irregularities of small emery paper.
10. Breeping loops, accessories, for what:

• we determine where the loops on the walls of the cabinet will be placed;
• we celebrate the location of the installation of fasteners on the facade;
• screw the loops to the facade;
• we insert the door to the place and screw to the body so that when closing it does not remain gaps and distortions.

Production of viper facades

To update your kitchen using the panel facades, you will have to purchase a blackboard with a thickness of about 20 mm for the frame and the phaneer of 6 mm thick for fillets. This sequence is:

• we make a frame, for which we cut 2 vertical and 2 horizontal parts;
• we do in elements of the framing from the inside of the groove to a depth of 10 mm and the width of 0.6 cm;
• i cut the fillets from plywood - the inner panel;
• we perform on horizontal elements of the framing of spikes with a width of 0.6 cm and a length of 10 mm;
• spin all the elements, incl. spikes and grooves;
• we put on the framing on the sealer, fit the landing;
• we apply glue into the grooves, on the spikes, ends of the panel;
• we collect the facade, inserting a sealer in the framing groceries, additionally fix the compounds with self-draws;
• leave dry;
• gluing connectivity;
• apply an antiseptic composition;
• we carry out the finish;
• we screw the loops, install in place, mount the accessories.

Keep in mind: plywood can be replaced with glass, MDF, forged parts, polycarbonate, plastic.

Facades for the kitchen in the aluminum frame with their own hands

The aluminum profile facade combines 2 material - aluminum and sealer frame. Such a tandem prevents the deformation, increases durability.

To make your own hands, such a facade act on this algorithm:

1. Cut the sealer from any material you like, and we make it centimeter 2 more both in length and width. If it is a chipboard or MDF, then we stick plastic from above, we evenly load on top and let it dry.
2. Choose an aluminum profile of the corresponding section.
3. We perform trimming, taking into account the thickness of the profile. Measure the profile, while it is planned to design an angles using decorative corners, then the profile length is equal to the corresponding size of the phylene edge. For the manufacture of the frame without corners, cut off the blank is longer than the insertion edge into two thicknesses of the profile. Suppose the length of the insert is 500 mm, the thickness of the aluminum frame is 4 mm, then the length of the workpiece is 500 + 8 \u003d 508 mm. It is necessary to keep the planks at an angle.
4. Fresh profile to the panel with a stapler or small nails.
5. Cut off the plastic insert along the length of the profile, insert it with one end in the groove and shake, closing, thus fastening.
6. Insert a decorative corner in the installed part of the frame, cut off the end profile and joke these two parts.
7. In this way, we make a complete framing, but 2 last details are mounted simultaneously so that you can make a bog. If there are no corners, then we do this:

• cut a piece of material intended for inserting, at an angle of 45 degrees;
• we wear a profile on the cut, cut off the saw.

Details and some nuances in this video:

All materials for the manufacture of kitchen facades have their advantages and cons. Some cheap, but short-lived, others - will serve for many years, but it will be expensive, but you can significantly save, after performing facades from expensive quality materials with your own hands. Experienced furniture makers provide for this training video: