Installing Lower Cabinets

1.Begin work on the lower cabinets once the upper cabinets have been completed.

2.Mark the locations of your studs for the lower cabinets, then bring in the cabinets and set them into place. 

Check which cabinet sits highest, perhaps due to a high spot in the floor. It is easier to shim the others up to this height than to shorten the tall one.

3.Do a test fit and, if the cabinets are backed, make any cutouts necessary for electrical outlets, plumbing hookups, and the like.

4.Level the top of the cabinets by shimming under and behind them.

Remember that you will install a counter top on the cabinets, so you want this reasonably level and all the joints to be flush. Look at the appearance of the cabinet fronts and make sure those are even.

5.Screw the lower cabinets to the wall.