Kitchens by Riland

If you want to give your kitchen a rustic finish that will work so well with the country furniture, the beadboard finish is the thing that you want in your kitchen cabinets.

Mostly used for decor purposes, beadboard is used around the lower sections of the wall to prevent damage, or it can also be used as a backsplash on the wall that is behind the kitchen’s washing area. It protects walls from getting damaged from the water that might soak in to the mortar and cause weaknesses to the house walls in general. A beadboard needs not only appear in drab and dull colors but it can as well be painted the color of the kitchen cabinets so that it matches well with them. Although it is a little too traditional, beadboard can be used for maximum benefit and effect in the kitchen cabinets.

As well as being cheap and readily available, the beadboard is easy to install as well calling for no special tools or any expertise. You are just required to keep a cool head while you do it so that you can bring out an exact perfection of the same. Among the tools that you may be required to have in hand for the job are of course the beadboard itself, tape measure, adhesive glue, sand paper, pencil and screwdriver among others. Once you have determined what face of the kitchen cabinets you want to give the wainscoting beadboard look, get to sand the whole face thoroughly. This is mostly because you will use the adhesive construction grade gum to stick the beadborad on the cabinet and it cannot stick if it has got varnish or paint on it.

Once you are done with sanding, then use the tape measure to measure the area that you are going to fix with the breadboard, and then stretch the breadboard out; and marking with your pencil, draw a straight line with a ruler along the points that you have marked and then cut along the line with your table saw. Wear eye protection because as you cut, some chips are likely to fly out. Then apply your adhesive over the surface that is enough for the strip that you have cut. Fix your bead board starting from the bottom of the cabinet going up. Before it dries up, you can use the level to check on the plumb of the veneer strip and fix it accordingly. Repeat the process with all the others until you are done and then prime your fixed bead boards with any color that you want, and you will have got your beadboard kitchen cabinets ready for use.