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# Building Kitchen Cabinets: The Essential Guide for Woodworkers and DIY Enthusiasts (Taunton's Build Like a Pro)

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Review: Extremely good book for the newcomer to cabinetry - I'm new to cabinet-building but experienced enough in carpentry. This was an extremely useful book for me, I've never done pocket hole screws or done biscuit joining before and my first standard kitchen cabinet was by far a solid success story. They cover all the basics from standard kitchen cabinet-making, to pantry cabinets, to non-standard cabinets like corner cabinets with detailed outside faces. I'm currently redoing an entire kitchen from scratch and I'm using the book extensively. I haven't done the doors yet, but they've got some extremely nice looking door plans in place. Covers general guides for planing and joining to make your own butcher block countertops, a number of different side-facing and detailed routing plans for both doors and out-facing cabinet sides. Detailed corner cabinet build plan. They don't go into detail on how to do biscuit joinery, but that took me a 5 minute guide on youtube and I was good to go. Aside from buying the pocket screw kit and the biscuit joiner, I'm spending roughly 100 dollars in materials and something like 6-8 hours per cabinet to build the two standard oak 36 inch base cabinets I've done. I'm picky on my own work but I think they look great. Some of this would be old hat to a guy who's done a lot of cabinets and I'm sure they'd be using staples somewhere where this guy uses screws, pocket screws and biscuit joining 95% of the time but I appreciate something that's going to last a long time if put together well. I've read through a few cabinet books before and generally they'd be very general in nature
Review: Can't believe how helpful this was - For making built-in kitchen cabinets from scratch or adding to the ones you already have, this is a great aid. I am remodeling my kitchen, purchased pre-made unfinished cabinets and needed to add cabinets the manufacturer does not make. In adding to the "other" cabinets for the kitchen, the book gave ideas for design and construction - modified by myself - for a fantastic kitchen re-make. This was extremely helpful in knowing what and how to go about making the "custom" cabinets fit and "look" like the manufacturer's cabinets. Made the job so much easier. Taunton Press, publishers of Fine Woodworking and Fine Homebuilding have hit a home run with this very helpful book.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #117,433 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #59 in Carpentry #107 in Woodworking Projects (Books) #185 in Do-It-Yourself Home Improvement (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (435) |
| Dimensions  | 9.25 x 0.38 x 10.75 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 1561584703 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1561584703 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 176 pages |
| Publication date  | April 1, 2003 |
| Publisher  | Taunton |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extremely good book for the newcomer to cabinetry
*by J***S on December 1, 2015*

I'm new to cabinet-building but experienced enough in carpentry. This was an extremely useful book for me, I've never done pocket hole screws or done biscuit joining before and my first standard kitchen cabinet was by far a solid success story. They cover all the basics from standard kitchen cabinet-making, to pantry cabinets, to non-standard cabinets like corner cabinets with detailed outside faces. I'm currently redoing an entire kitchen from scratch and I'm using the book extensively. I haven't done the doors yet, but they've got some extremely nice looking door plans in place. Covers general guides for planing and joining to make your own butcher block countertops, a number of different side-facing and detailed routing plans for both doors and out-facing cabinet sides. Detailed corner cabinet build plan. They don't go into detail on how to do biscuit joinery, but that took me a 5 minute guide on youtube and I was good to go. Aside from buying the pocket screw kit and the biscuit joiner, I'm spending roughly 100 dollars in materials and something like 6-8 hours per cabinet to build the two standard oak 36 inch base cabinets I've done. I'm picky on my own work but I think they look great. Some of this would be old hat to a guy who's done a lot of cabinets and I'm sure they'd be using staples somewhere where this guy uses screws, pocket screws and biscuit joining 95% of the time but I appreciate something that's going to last a long time if put together well. I've read through a few cabinet books before and generally they'd be very general in nature

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Can't believe how helpful this was
*by D***H on February 22, 2012*

For making built-in kitchen cabinets from scratch or adding to the ones you already have, this is a great aid. I am remodeling my kitchen, purchased pre-made unfinished cabinets and needed to add cabinets the manufacturer does not make. In adding to the "other" cabinets for the kitchen, the book gave ideas for design and construction - modified by myself - for a fantastic kitchen re-make. This was extremely helpful in knowing what and how to go about making the "custom" cabinets fit and "look" like the manufacturer's cabinets. Made the job so much easier. Taunton Press, publishers of Fine Woodworking and Fine Homebuilding have hit a home run with this very helpful book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good for ideas but check the math.
*by J***S on January 9, 2010*

Overall a very good book to assist in layout and building of cabinets. The basics are covered well along with some important considerations for building and installing cabinets. It should be pointed out that there are many different ways to build cabinets and that this is just one builder's observations when building the style he prefers. I used this book along with another in the Build Like a Pro series titled, "Trim Carpentry and Built-Ins" by Clayton Dekorne which also offered some great tips for the project I was doing at the time. Trim Carpentry and Built-Ins (Build Like A Pro) The one thing that keeps this book from earning top marks is that there are flawed math formulas and measurements which can cause a great deal of frustration for users that are relying on those numbers. Other reviews have pointed several out. I found one when building a 45 degree corner cabinet and the numbers didn't work out quite right. After drawing it out full-size on the sheet of plywood I was able to build the cabinet to the numbers needed. The design of the cabinet was helpful but the math would have made it impossible to assemble if cut right from the numbers. I saw similar formula errors in about 3 other areas in the book. As a guide, this book is a good one to have around the shop. It assumes that you have an intermediate level of ability in the shop and will not teach you to use your tools. I would recommend using this book in conjunction with the other mentioned above and other resources to produce your cabinets if doing the first time. As always - measure twice, cut once. (Sometimes it helps to measure more than twice)

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