How to INSTALL KITCHEN CABINETS (and remove them)! // DIY Kitchen Remodel Pt. 1

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Swapping solid hardwood cabinets for thermofoil plastic covered crap? Rip out granite for plywood plastic formica crap? The removal and installation techniques were great, which was the purpose of the video so you deserve a Thumbs Up. Putting that sweet Blum hardware on those boxes is like putting a Ferrari engine in a Yugo. I hope you can live with the material choices. Free from Lowes or not, I think you're going to regret this.

[wadadlimall]

Those old cabinets where still in excellent condition

[chrisrudder]

This was a great video. Thank you. I am a bit baffled though. Your old cabinets looked at least 10 times nicer than the white ones...

[darinnetherland]

I know you were sponsored by Lowe’s and need to use their product, but after doing my own kitchen, I have to highly recommend to anyone Ikea’s cabinets. They are cheaper, high quality, 256ear warranty, and SUPER EASY to install. Their rail system makes all that leveling and shimming your doing on each cabinet completely unnecessary. Their online kitchen planner is an easy amazing tool to plan your kitchen, and is smarter than any store employee and will catch any errors made before you buy everything. They also have tons of great features like soft close everything that’s a breeze to install. I never did any remodel or cabinet work in my life and did my kitchen 100% by myself. I really can’t recommend their stuff enough.

[joshuaphipps]

Not running flooring under the cabinets is pretty common, and in fact is recommended by some manufacturers. If you set a bunch of heavy cabinets on top of wooden flooring, it can restrict its ability to expand and contract with the seasons.

[christyklepinger]

Great video. You have an amazing Father in Law to help you out like that. I’m impressed with all your knowledge from electric, plumbing, and wood working. Thanks for sharing this remodel.

[alm.]

When they cracked the granite I was like Really nice video but I would have just painted the original cabinets and called it good...

[tomlagatol]

I enjoyed the video thanks. It brought back to mind the days when I did it for myself many years ago. In my day people would paint over the beautiful brickwork in their houses I guess nowadays they replace solid oak cabinets for plywood and MDF... each to his own.🙂

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5:24 watching remodeling shows on TV always irks me when they smash kitchen cabinets for televised fun. Very rarely do I hear someone on those shows say they need to save the cabinets to donate them.

Unless they're just *trashed* surely someone could use them for SOMETHING, anything, better than ending up in a landfill. Thank you for making sure to mention you donated yours.

[ckm-mkc]

When my wife & I redid our kitchen we used Ikea cabinets and did it in 3 days.... Including pouring a self leveling floor. One thing that helped was not trying to do overcomplicate the setup and ordering everything you need up front.

[Methodical]

Nice work, but why did you go from a stone top to a laminate top? Curious?

[matthysloedolff]

I liked the old kitchen; however, these new cabinets give a much cleaner and more modern look to your kitchen. Looks great 👍

[michaelh]

This is the only time I have ever seen where the new kitchen looks worse than the old kitchen 🤣

[lindagrennan]

We ordered Kraftmaid thru a local company in OKC after getting costs from both big box stores and 2 other local cabinet companies. The local cabinet makers said they could not start until the fall due to doing cabinets for a builder. I went back to local store and changed some things and price came down. Kraftmaid was actually on sell in April when I ordered. Prior to ordering 6-8 wks. Day after we ordered they said 8-12 weeks.They arrived at 8 1/2 weeks. We were pretty sure they would come in less than 12, as we only ordered a pantry and 5 lower cabinets. They were delivered last week and we will do install this weekend. Glad I found your videos as they will come in handy. I had not see the pulls you used on your cabinets. Personally I like the original cabinets better. Not a big fan of white cabinets. We were looking at medium wood cabinets but finally went with a midnight blue. Pretty excited to see it redone. Previous owner had put in 1930's cut down cabinets into a 1955 built house. Thin doors and they had been painted 5 times. If they had been like my grandparents cabinets, I would not have minded. These were thin cheap and done out of 4 types of wood. No backs and shallow. Husband and son in law are doing install then local company will come do the countertops. I would tried to reuse the granite counter tops. Glad you donated them. I see so many videos that they just smash them up. Most could have been reused as garage cabinets.

[CMBtonymontana]

This video just gave me motivation after demoing my kitchen 😌🙏🏾

[chrismoore]

You went from a GRANITE counter top to a plastic laminate... That is a downgrade, not an upgrade.

[MrWhitelightning]

Who else thought the original kitchen was very nice !!

[WoodUCreate]

Formica downgrade from Granite. Can't tell from the video if the granite was in bad shape but based on the rest of the kitchen, I assumed it was all right. I would definitely put in new granite, leave the formica for the garage workstations.
That oven probably costs around $3k, so I bet overall you're in the $11-12k range for new cabinet replacements.
I just got done putting in a very small rental kitchen with these Kraftmade cabinets from Menards, but mine had the adjustable feet which I'll admit were nice to fine tune for level and plumb.

[kelli]

Want to remove stuff from the cabinets really fast? I’ll have my 18mo son come over. It’s easy, you just take a 15 minute nap on the couch and, viola! 100% empty cabinets and drawers!

[Rocky]

It's not cheaping out to not put the flooring underneath the cabinets. No contractor does that. It's a waste of time and money to do and has absolutely no benefit.