See the IKEA SEKTION cabinet door instructions in real life images, step-by-step tutorial so you can see where each piece and part of the door and hinge fit together.
Here’s the last in my video post series on how to assemble and install parts from the IKEA SEKTION system. I’ve posted about how to assemble a base cabinet and how to assemble a kitchen drawer. Today’s post is my video on attaching the hinges and door of a cabinet. This would work for an upper or lower cabinet.
I created these videos because the black and white instructions that came with the parts of the IKEA SEKTION kitchen were a little vague. They are just drawings. So I thought it would be helpful to other homeowners to show how the kitchen assembly looks in real life. There are way too many different pieces for me to show all of the different instructions, so I made a video for each of the main parts of a kitchen: the cabinet, the drawers, and now the doors.
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Just a caution as you follow these videos—many of the IKEA SEKTION cabinet pieces are similar but have slightly different directions. Sometimes there are even multiple sets of instructions in one instruction book, and you have to figure out which one works for your pieces. It’s not hard, just be aware that door and hinge I attach in the video may be slightly different from the one you are working on. Most of the steps will be the same, but if there is something different, please follow the instructions that came with your cabinet. Also, if your cabinet has drawers in it, that will affect where you can place your hinges.
If you’d like to read more posts about our kitchen remodel and using the IKEA system, take a look at the following post:Every time I post a little glimpse of our bookshelves on Instagram I end up with a few questions from people. Truth be told I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a very long time now. But life keeps happening around here and I kept putting it off (for almost a year! Yikes!). Now I’m finally ready to pull everything together and share more about one of our biggest projects to date: BUILT INS!!!
Long time to complete. But I’ll try my best to show our process and at the end I’ll try to give a timeline break-down. We tackled this project with a newborn and didn’t finish until he was almost walking! What an adventure 🙂 haha!
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After we moved in we immediately painted all the walls white. Then we eventually ripped out the pony walls and added laminate flooring.
But there was still just a huge, empty wall of nothing (about 14 1/2 feet of nothing to be exact). But I always knew that I wanted to add shelving or more storage of some kind down the road.
So once we saved up a little money I started planning the design and dreaming up what this huge empty wall would become. And I must say, we did pretty well sticking to this plan. The only place we deviated was eliminating one shelf from the design.
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After doing a lot of research on pre-made base cabinets I decided to go with IKEA. The total depth of our wall that we had to work with was 17 inches, and so this really limited our options.
You can find pre-made upper cabinets at most big box stores that are about 12 inches deep (too small) and base cabinets that are about 24 inches deep (too big). Luckily IKEA sells base cabinets that are almost 15 inches deep. And that worked perfectly for us!
At the time that we started this project our closest Ikea was in Schaumburg, IL (they FINALLY opened one in Milwaukee just a few weeks ago – REJOICE!!!). I wasn’t able to make it down there to purchase all the supplies (#babylife) so we ordered everything online. I’d say it was definitely worth the extra $100ish delivery charge to not have to deal with the 4+ hours of driving and chaos that is IKEA. Although I did miss out on the Swedish meatballs.
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**Note: IKEA no longer sells the UTRUSTA door dampers. But they now sell hinges with built-in door dampers! So nice. These hinges weren’t available when we did this project so we didn’t use them. But if we were doing the project now I would just buy the hinges with built-in dampers.
I opted to not get door fronts from IKEA and instead ordered them separately through Semihandmade. Their doors are made to fit IKEA cabinets perfectly and are great quality wood doors. They’re much nicer than the ones you can get from IKEA.
I went with the DIY shaker style from Semihandmade so that we could paint them ourselves the same color white to match our kitchen cabinets and trim.
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I primed the cabinets first with a white Zinsser spray primer. And then Max used our paint sprayer and gave them two coats of Sherwin Williams Pro Classic. The color we used is Extra White in a satin finish. The paint job looks really professional and so far it’s been holding up great!
Before we started to install the base cabinets we had electricians come out and they added two outlets to counter height for us.
And they also added 5 wires to the ceiling for the sconces. They left the wires hanging and inactive so that we could build the whole upper frame and then later drill holes, pull the cords through, and hang the electrical boxes and sconces. There were a lot of steps to think about in this whole building process.
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I put together all five base cabinets myself and honestly the assembly didn’t take much time at all. Then once the cabinets were all assembled we attached the metal suspension rail to the wall and hung the cabinets from the suspension rail.
Leveling the rail took the most time because we wanted to make sure it was perfect. But once it was up the process of hanging the bases went pretty quickly.
During the whole electrical moving process we decided to keep one of the outlets at the bottom of the wall so that Max would be able to charge things inside one of the cabinets if he wanted. So for this we had to cut a hole in the back of the cabinet and then we installed this nifty recessed wall outlet that makes everything look pretty seamless inside.
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Once the cabinets were hung we could install our massive butcher block countertop. Since we were dealing with about 14 1/2 feet of wall space we needed a ridiculously long countertop. IKEA doesn’t make anything nearly this long and I didn’t want to have to join two butcher block countertops together because there would be a very visible seam.
So I found a company online that was able to cut a maple butcher block countertop to the exact depth we needed (16 inches) and shipped it out from California for us on a huge truck. We just had to cut some of the length off and finish the wood. I used Waterlox to seal the wood. But it worked pretty well. I love the look of the butcher block.
IKEA cabinets use UTRUSTA hinges that are really quite awesome. There are no screws that screw into the door itself. It holds on through some kind of pressure system. But there are screws when you hang the hinges on the actual cabinets.
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After the hinges and doors are hung on the cabinets there’s adjustments you can make to the hinges so that the doors line up properly. You use a screw driver to turn screws inside the hinges to make minor adjustments up-down, side-to-side, etc. It took me a long time fiddle with this to get everything perfectly in-line.
After all the adjustment were made I installed the door dampeners so that all the cabinet doors are soft close. These click on over the hinges. No more loud slamming of cabinet doors! It’s amazing.
Our total wall length was 174 inches and our five cabinets ended up being about 168 inches (3×36” cabinets in the middle and 2×30” cabinets on the ends). So we had to fill in about 3 inches on each side of the cabinets with filler.
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We got the filler panels from Semihandmade when we ordered the doors and we painted them the same color as the doors. And then Max had to expertly trim the filler to fit in the hole between the cabinet and the wall. And then we nailed the filler in from the side of the cabinet and added some caulk on the wall side to make sure everything was snug and secure.
After the countertop was installed Max custom built the whole upper portion of bookshelves. It took a little trial and error because we were still learning how to do all these things.
But basically Max framed in the header portion where the electrical for the sconces would go. And then he decided
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