Cutting Cabinet Doors For Farmhouse Sink

Open the doors on the cabinet below the sink.

Cutting cabinet doors for farmhouse sink.

Then small humans kept appearing in the opening. Adding a farmhouse sink to an existing kitchen cabinet. When you want to install your farmhouse sink you need to cut out enough of that panel to fit your new sink. Use this measurement to decide by how much the doors will need to be cut down.

While other sinks are dropped into a hole that has been cut into the countertop farm sinks slide into an opening underneath the countertop and above the base cabinet. Corner sink base kitchen cabinet in satin white 67. Sink is beautiful with a classic look but the bottom of the left side sink has a depression that water puddles in right side drains perfectly. The video to the left demonstrates an under mount installation.

Reach into the cabinet. A farm sink is supported solely by the base cabinet it rests on rather than using the countertop as support like with a drop in sink. My husband undid the plumbing and removed the sink. The cabinet had to be cut and reinforced so the new sink would be level with the cabinets and then the new counter tops would rest on top.

Cut cabinet doors down to size. No need to cut up your cabinetry or have new doors made for the sink cabinet. Our doors needed to be cut down by exactly 3. Fireclay sinks are all slightly different so there was no standard template.

Google images of farmhouse sinks. One of the most distinctive features of a farmhouse sink is their exposed front of the basin. Farmhouse kitchen cabinets. You can tell by the drawers and such of the adjoining side cabinets being right up to the sink vs spaced away by a couple inches.

One easy way to add a farmhouse sink to your existing kitchen is to just replace the face frame for your sink cabinet. We can do this as a top mount too. Apply construction adhesive to one edge of both studs. Use a drill driver to screw one 2 by 4 stud horizontally to both.

Home decorators collection tremont assembled 36 x 34 5 x 24 in. Removed the false drawer front cut and removed the cabinet top face frame piece horizontal and the sink fit perfectly above the face frame cabinet doors. Measure the new opening for your cabinet doors. Plywood shaker base kitchen cabinet soft close doors drawers in painted pearl gray 1.

As i m sure you have already but notice where the width of the sink is the same width of the cabinet doors under where it s installed verses smaller sinks cut into a larger cabinet. You can use the formula s above with the existing cabinet measurements to cut a new face frame to fit around your cabinet. Hampton bay hampton ready to assemble 36 x 34 5 x 24 in.