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If woodworking endeavors are in your blood and you love to build furniture or even if you want to attempt to assemble the best dining room piece ever, you should read further. Kitchen hutches are a great start towards completing your goal of being a regular Martha Stewart. Why? A kitchen hutch is the answer to all your storage problems in the kitchen with its chief concern on housing your china dishes and cutlery and keeping it safe. Also, if you budget correctly, you can build yourself a state-of-the-art custom kitchen hutch that will suit all your unique needs.
Before you build your kitchen hutch, decide on what reason you will use this hutch for. While the kitchen hutch is the most famous, they come in many forms including the buffet hutch and the china hutch to fit the many applications and contexts. For the sake of being general, let's say you decide on a regular contemporary kitchen hutch as a model. First, you have to assign a corner of the house to keep your hutch. Typically, if you want it to be a cohesive component of your dining set, you will place it against a wall across from your dining room table and chairs. You should also pick a style that fits the rest of the scheme of the room. If, however, you would like it in the kitchen you can put it in any nook by the kitchen table for easy access. After you pick out the the type and location it is recommended that you purchase: hardwood shutters, hinges, shelving, knobs for the cabinet doors, paint of your choice and a finish of your choice.
Take the furring strips you bought and place them in the corner with wall studs to provide stability and framing. Then attach the strips horizontally to the studs to create niches for your shelves to sit upon. Now take the shutters that you properly measured to fit within your hutch's dimensions and hang them with hidden hinges. Add small knobs to both doors or if you want to go for a more streamlined look, leave them out. After you finish this, put the shelves on top of the shelf supports you created earlier. If you are making a corner hutch, cut the shelves into a triangular shape to fit into your buffet. Finally, you can put the finishing touches on your kitchen hutch by painting it the color you think best complements your kitchen or your dining room. After the paint is properly dried, you can glaze it over with a strong sealed finish. Voila! You have now built your own beautiful kitchen hutch for your fragile china and glasses to sit in. |
