No one wants to see white on the side of a brown kitchen cabinet.
IKEA kitchens are a frameless construction. When you look at them from the front, you can see only the doors and drawer fronts. On the inside, the frame is either birch or white. Since IKEA offers a variety of different colors for door styles, ranging from white to dark brown and even red, cover panels are necessary to cover any exposed sides. A cover panel of the same finish conceals the birch or white frame and makes the kitchen color uniform. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Align the cover panel along the correct side of the cabinet frame.
2. Clamp the cover panel in place using a quick clamp. If you don't have quick clamps, which are soft, use a piece of foam or something soft between the clamp and the cover panel's finished side. A metal clamp could damage the finish if it is over-tightened.
3. In the front row of predrilled holes, use the Phillips screwdriver to put a screw, provided with the cover panel, into the fourth hole from the top of the frame. Do the same in the rear row of predrilled holes.
4. In the front row of predrilled holes, use the Phillips screwdriver to put a supplied screw into the fourth hole from the bottom of the frame. Do the same in the rear row of predrilled holes.
5. If the cover panel is attaching to an 80-inch or 88-inch pantry cabinet, use the Phillips screwdriver to put one of the remaining screws in the middle of front row of holes. Use the final screw to do the same on the rear row of holes.
If the cover panel is attaching to a base cabinet or wall cabinet, you will not use the remaining two screws.
Tags: cover panel, predrilled holes, cover panel, Phillips screwdriver, same rear, birch white
