How to Install Cabinet Door Knobs and Drawer Pulls Perfectly the First Time | Pretty Handy Girl

I know when y'all buy a new vanity or just have new cabinets installed information technology's hard to get up the guts to drill through the pristine doors and drawers to install new knobs on and then. I go it, actually I do. You lot are worried you'll drill in the wrong spot. Or you lot might mess up the terminate if your drill flake slips. Well, yous're in luck! Today I have the goof proof tutorial forHow to Install Knobs on New Cabinet Doors and Drawers!

Materials:
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How to Install Cabinet Knobs Perfect the First Time | Pretty Handy Girl

  • Knobs or pulls (purchase in a multi-pack to save coin)
  • Drill
  • Drill bit (aforementioned width equally the knob screws)
  • Pencil
  • Scrap of sparse woods or plexiglass
  • Phillips head chip
  • Tape mensurate
  • Painter's Record

Instructions:

Take one final look at the pristine cabinet doors and drawers. Now, catch the tape measure and allow'south get busy!

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Marker the location for your new knob or pull. For knobs, yous desire to center the knob equidistant between the top and sides of the cabinet door. If you have a decorative frame, the knob can line upwardly with the miter articulation. For drawer pulls, center the knob left to right and superlative to lesser.

How to Install Cabinet Knobs Perfect the First Time | Pretty Handy Girl

Measure the location you chose.

How to Install Cabinet Knobs Perfect the First Time | Pretty Handy Girl

Transfer the measurements onto the scrap board.

How to Install Cabinet Knobs Perfect the First Time | Pretty Handy Girl

Select your drill flake past comparing it to the screw for your knob or pull. Brand sure they are the same diameter.

How to Install Cabinet Knobs Perfect the First Time | Pretty Handy Girl

Drill your hole through the pencil mark on your flake forest.

How to Install Cabinet Knobs Perfect the First Time | Pretty Handy Girl

Encompass the marks on the door/drawer with painter'due south tape. This will foreclose your drill bit from slipping and eliminate potential chipping.

How to Install Cabinet Knobs Perfect the First Time | Pretty Handy Girl

Tape your bit wood template onto the cabinet door.

How to Install Cabinet Knobs Perfect the First Time | Pretty Handy Girl Drill through the template and through the door.

How to Install Cabinet Knobs Perfect the First Time | Pretty Handy Girl

Remove the template and tape to reveal that perfectly positioned pigsty.

How to Install Cabinet Knobs Perfect the First Time | Pretty Handy Girl

Press the screw through the hole (sometimes you might demand to bulldoze it in with your drill and phillips caput bit.

How to Install Cabinet Knobs Perfect the First Time | Pretty Handy Girl

Tighten the knob onto the door.

How to Install Cabinet Knobs Perfect the First Time | Pretty Handy Girl

Flip the template over and echo for the other cabinet doors.

How to Install Cabinet Knobs Perfect the First Time | Pretty Handy Girl

That wasn't difficult was information technology?

How to Install Cabinet Knobs Perfect the First Time | Pretty Handy Girl

Relish your perfectly positioned knobs and pulls.

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What other projects are you hesitant to have on? Maybe I accept a tutorial for that!

Update! I establish an even easier way to install cabinet knobs and pulls:

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Y'all'll don't need to put off installing those knobs any longer!

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