![]() ![]() I found a scrap piece of wood and marked center of the width of the board then I marked the distance of the cabinet pull screw holes onto the center mark. ![]() To create a template for the drawers I did it a little different. Please note that because I updated my cabinet doors with trim, found here, I did have to buy longer cabinet screws. The template will look like this when drilling the holes. I found it helped to place tape or another scrap board on the back side of the cabinet door to help the wood from chipping the paint ( you could also do this before painting the doors). The top of the template will be placed where ever you want the handles, just make sure you are adding them to the right side. To do this, I used wood clamps to hold the template into place. Now I could drill the holes into the cabinet doors with the template. I then tested to make sure the cabinet pull fit the template. ![]() Next I drilled a 1/4″ hole into the marked spots. I then measured the distance in-between the cabinet pull screw holes and marked that on the wood. On the piece of wood I am using as I template, I then marked the distance from the top edge of the wood 3″ plus the distance of the screw hole, I made sure to mark along the previously marked center line. Or you can also turn the pull to this side and use the pull as the measure. Next I measured the distance from the end of the cabinet pull to the closest screw hole ( measuring to the middle). To install cabinet pulls, you want the end of the pull to be the distance of the cabinet door trim, in our case 3″. On the piece of wood, I marked 1.5″ from the edge of the width of board ( this is where the center of our cabinet door trim is). To create the template, I found a piece of wood that was the length of the pull, plus 3-4″ and the width of the cabinet door trim ( 3″ or almost the width, mine was bigger). To install the pulls onto the cabinet doors, I created a template out of wood that I used on every door. I actually found the cabinet pulls about two years ago on Overstock for about $60, find them find the cabinet pulls here. Because all of our new pulls and hinges are different from the old ones, we filled in all the old screw holes with wood filler before painting or drilling new holes. So we decided that with updating our kitchen we would replace all the hinges and cabinet pulls. With our old kitchen, the pulls and hinges were dated and some were broken. The technique I used made adding the hardware a little easier, plus I give a tip on how we adjusted the cabinet doors so they would close…ĭisclosure: This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience, click here to read my full disclosure policy. Something I realized the other day was that I forgot to share how we installed the new hardware on our kitchen cabinets because we switched them all out. ![]()
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