Handles for kitchen facades (36 photos): instructions for installing front kitchen elements with your own hands, price, video, photo

If you purchased a branded kitchen set in a store, then it is unlikely that you will need to replace the handles, at least at first. But, perhaps, you decided to assemble such a structure yourself, then the handles for kitchen facades and their installation will interest you extremely.

A variety of handles for kitchen fronts

The variety of handles is amazing

There are many handles, but the facade is one

Handle selection

Large kitchen front handles

Kitchen fronts with comfortable large handles

• We should not forget that handles for kitchen facades are not so much decorative as functional, and the state of the kitchen itself may also depend on its choice. kitchen facadea.
  This can be confirmed by any hostess who has to open and close cabinet doors many times a day.

• In order to often open the cabinet, the handle must not only be convenient - it must be a single whole with the facade, so as not to break away from it (the price of the handle in this case has no values).

Kitchen handle decor

Classic kitchens with staple hands

And if the front panel is made of glass, a poorly holding handle can cause the door to crack and even cause injury (glass cuts).

This front handle is very convenient

Council. As already noted, functionality is in the first place for kitchen handles, therefore, when choosing those, it is better to abandon decorative small devices that hold on to one screw.
The advantage of large handles, such as the one in the photo above, for kitchen fronts is even that they are fixed to the panel in several places.

Kitchen handles in modern design

Modern orange kitchen with comfortable handles

Installing handles

• Making templates for markup. When installing handles on kitchen facades with your own hands, it would be nice to make templates for marking.
  Keep in mind that there are a lot of doors and a drawer, and you will need to maintain symmetry during installation, otherwise, even if the handles are very beautiful, all your work will look clumsy.

When you have a template, then you can install handles on all facades at once, even before hanging them.
In addition, hinges are also installed on the doors using a template, where every millimeter of distance is extremely important.

• Take a piece of plywood or OSB. Of course, it is not necessary to make a template with a ruler and a rod, you can simply use a piece of plywood or OSB with 90⁰ corners and make holes there in the right places.
  In the future, you will just need to attach this template to the edge of the facade and drill it without prior marking.
• Fitting the washer. For wooden kitchen facades it is necessary to adjust the washer on the reverse side under the bolt so that it does not push the array and the handle does not get loose.
  Also, a washer is required for glass panels, so that the load from the fastening is distributed over a large area, which will reduce the risk of cracking.

Fittings for modern kitchen facades

Council. Installing handles on kitchen facades involves drilling the panel and if it is made of natural solid wood wood or MDF, the back side can break out, especially if you need to make a large hole diameter.
To prevent this from happening, you can use a stepped or core drill, or you can sharpen the sharpening angle of a tapered drill and drill without much pressure.

If we use any type of cutting drills to install handles on kitchen facades made of natural wood or MDF, and everything is clear here, then what about glass?
No instruction will help you with this, because any glass is a fragile material with a certain degree of physical activity (some more, and some less).

• We use special drills. For glass panels for the kitchen facade you can use special diamond-coated drills on the working part, that is, on the tip.
  When drilling a hole, it is very important to set the glass on a level surface and sand is best for this purpose.

• Making burning with liquid tin. There is another way to make a hole in a glass panel for a handle; this is by burning with liquid tin.
  The method is reliable, with one hundred percent guarantee that the glass will not crack. To do this, you need regular sifted sand and soldering tin.

• Marking the front panel and in the place where you need to make a hole, pour 20-30g of sand. Then, with a rod (pencil, wire) make a funnel of the required diameter in the sand at the point of drilling and pour molten tin there.
  After a few seconds, the solder will cool down, and you can shake off the sand and remove the solidified mass along with the glass stopper - the hole is ready.

And here is the result

Conclusion

In principle, installing a handle on a kitchen facade is not difficult, at least not much more difficult than choosing one. In addition, you can watch the installation video, which is on this page.

Designer kitchen handles

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