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I know many of you have hung cabinets in the past - and I'm in the middle of doing this for the first time. The kitchen I am doing this in was framed out in 1880, and just to get the drywall right required shimming. The walls are MUCh better than they were a few months ago, but still not plumb and the floor in the kitchen goes in every direction imaginable.
I have the upper cabinets installed and about 3/4 of the lower cabinets are done. In order to get the cabinets level, significant shimming of the corners of the cabinets was required - including a 1/2 inch piece of plywood in the corner of a 30" cabinet (to give an idea of what "significant is).
The person who designed the kitchen (not me - it's my grandmother's house and my mom got the cabinets from a kitchen design friend) put a 9" cabinet by itself on one side of the stove. The wall and floor are sooooo far out of level on this 9" cabinet that I had to shim the top away from the wall about 1/4", and the front still did not touch the floor; it's about 1/4 inch off. I put shims in the corners/back - and now I have gaps that are visable from the side and front of the cabinets. On the front, I have some very thin base material that I'm thinking I can just scribe to the floor and glue to the base of the cabinet. On the side....I'm kind of at a loss.
These cabinets are the absolute cheapest plywood cabinets you could imagine. Again, I wasn't involved in the purchase and actually strongly advised against buying from the person that sold them - but these things are junk. They look OK once they're up and only a trained eye would know - but they're far from quality.
Given the quality of the cabinets, I'm thinking I may just put a scribe board piece against the cabinet where it meets the wall. There is no material on the cabinet to scribe the cabinet itself to the wall...so I'm at a loss there.
How would you handle this situation? In retrospect, I should have at least scribed the bottom of the cabinets to the floor...but I'd never done this before and the thought hadn't crossed my mind.
My second question is this - crown moulding. I have put matching extension boards on the top of the face frames so that they go to within about 1/8" from the ceiling. My plan was to put white crown moulding around the room, and the cabinets were originally going to be white - so that would have matched.
Now, the cabinets are a "classic country oak" which looks to me like a white oak with no stain and a water-based poly coating. I actually found some red oak crown moulding that matches the pattern of the white crown that I was planning on putting up.
I know I will see the difference - but would anyone advise against mixing the red/white oak? I'm thinking I can do the white around the room, and then just use the red oak over the cabinets, with a clear water-based poly on it.
I held it up to the cabinet and my gf thinks it's very close and won't matter...but she doesn't see the difference between the red/white oak. Do you think it will be OK?
Thanks again for your opinions, thoughts, help, etc!
I have the upper cabinets installed and about 3/4 of the lower cabinets are done. In order to get the cabinets level, significant shimming of the corners of the cabinets was required - including a 1/2 inch piece of plywood in the corner of a 30" cabinet (to give an idea of what "significant is).
The person who designed the kitchen (not me - it's my grandmother's house and my mom got the cabinets from a kitchen design friend) put a 9" cabinet by itself on one side of the stove. The wall and floor are sooooo far out of level on this 9" cabinet that I had to shim the top away from the wall about 1/4", and the front still did not touch the floor; it's about 1/4 inch off. I put shims in the corners/back - and now I have gaps that are visable from the side and front of the cabinets. On the front, I have some very thin base material that I'm thinking I can just scribe to the floor and glue to the base of the cabinet. On the side....I'm kind of at a loss.
These cabinets are the absolute cheapest plywood cabinets you could imagine. Again, I wasn't involved in the purchase and actually strongly advised against buying from the person that sold them - but these things are junk. They look OK once they're up and only a trained eye would know - but they're far from quality.
Given the quality of the cabinets, I'm thinking I may just put a scribe board piece against the cabinet where it meets the wall. There is no material on the cabinet to scribe the cabinet itself to the wall...so I'm at a loss there.
How would you handle this situation? In retrospect, I should have at least scribed the bottom of the cabinets to the floor...but I'd never done this before and the thought hadn't crossed my mind.
My second question is this - crown moulding. I have put matching extension boards on the top of the face frames so that they go to within about 1/8" from the ceiling. My plan was to put white crown moulding around the room, and the cabinets were originally going to be white - so that would have matched.
Now, the cabinets are a "classic country oak" which looks to me like a white oak with no stain and a water-based poly coating. I actually found some red oak crown moulding that matches the pattern of the white crown that I was planning on putting up.
I know I will see the difference - but would anyone advise against mixing the red/white oak? I'm thinking I can do the white around the room, and then just use the red oak over the cabinets, with a clear water-based poly on it.
I held it up to the cabinet and my gf thinks it's very close and won't matter...but she doesn't see the difference between the red/white oak. Do you think it will be OK?
Thanks again for your opinions, thoughts, help, etc!
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