How to Install Cabinet Pulls

You've installed an entire kitchens worth of cabinets, and now the trick is to make sure you get all of the pulls in the right place. The thing is, you only need to do this once. It doesn't matter if it's a single little screw hole, three inch centers, four inch centers. You lay it out once on the door, make this jig, and all the rest of your pulls will turn out right. Probability, you first got to determine what looks right, in terms of a distance. And once you determine that, go ahead and make some marks on the actual door. Here, we're going to make marks at two inches from the bottom, and five inches. We're going to make another set of marks, so that it's centered on the routed profile of the door itself. Now I have my marks, based on that, I just take a single piece of wood, and I make those marks there and there. I'm going to put stops on the bottom and stops on the side, so when I hook those over there, those holes are going to be in the exact right spot. I can do it on the left side of the door, the right side of the door, when you get the base cabinets, you can use the same jig to do the top of the door. So, once the jig's made, it's as simple as this to use it. You can do these with the cabinet doors in place, which makes it pretty handy, it gives you a visual sense of what you are doing. We're going to do it with them on the work surface. There we have our holes, there we have our pulls. Do this another 20 times and you've got a great looking kitchen.