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Adding a Cabinet Toe Kick

All Posts, Cabinet Making 101, Cabinets, Kitchen

Adding a decorative toe-kick to cabinets and built-insI love adding visual interest by installing decorative cabinets toe kicks.  I’ve been adding a decorative cabinet toekick on key cabinets in my kitchen.  If the cabinet already has a faceframe, this is a really easy way to add a cabinet toe kick.  On new cabinetry, you could cut out your design in the bottom rail but that would require a using more expensive wider rail and creates more waste — so I do it this way.

How to add a Cabinet Toe Kick

Adding a Decorative Toe Kick to a Cabinet Faceframe

Create a template

  • If you want to download and print out my design, click here: decorative toe kick PDF.
  • Trace the design onto 1/4″ plywood and use a jigsaw to cut out.

How to add a decorative toe-kick

  • Once you have your 1/4″ plywood template, use double stick tape  to secure the template to your faceframe material.  I generally use poplar or maple for painted faceframes.

Toe kick template

Adding a decorative toe-kick to cabinets and built-ins

Cut

  • Use a jigsaw or bandsaw to cut out your design.  Cut slightly away from the template and make sure not to cut into the template.

Adding a decorative toe-kick to cabinets and built-ins

Clean it up

  • If you have a palm router, use a top bearing flush trim bit  to perfectly follow the template and clean up the cut.
  • If you don’t have a palm router, clean up your cuts with a sander.

Adding a decorative toe-kick to cabinets and built-ins

Attach

  • Glue the decorative piece into place and hold with clamps until the glue is set.

Making a decorative toekick for a kitchen cabinet

Then you can sand, fill,  finish and attach your faceframe as you would any other.    (How to build and attach a faceframe)

Adding a Cabinet Toe Kick

March 5, 2015 · 5 Comments

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Comments

  1. Angela says

    March 5, 2015 at 9:00 am

    It looks amazing!!!

    Reply
  2. [email protected] Interior Frugalista says

    March 5, 2015 at 10:48 am

    Great tutorial! I love this look and wondered how to add it to our bathroom vanities. Thanks to you now I know how to DIY it!

    Reply
  3. Danielle says

    March 5, 2015 at 3:46 pm

    I am definitely doing this to my bathrooms! Thanks for sharing and making it look simple!

    Reply
  4. Bob says

    March 6, 2015 at 2:01 pm

    looks great sandra. this would look great on a bathroom vanity i want to make.

    Reply
  5. Maria Mazina says

    March 12, 2015 at 4:57 am

    cool.. Yeah jigsaw or bandsaw are good to cut template.

    Reply

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