Drilling into your brand new cabinets in order to install the hardware is daunting. What if you make a mistake? It’s not like you can just fix it. Not to mention that cabinets are an expensive investment.

When it came time for me to put the knobs on our cabinet doors I made a little template to help ensure that the knobs would be aligned correctly.

I made this from a piece of scrap wood.

I first measured exactly where I wanted the knobs to be on the cabinet doors. Then I transferred this measurement to the scrap of wood.

For the love of all things, make sure that you label your template. You might think that you won’t forget, but you will.

As you can see from the photo I am holding up the template for the right door.

The best part about the template… when you flip it over it works for the left door.

You can now also use it on your lower cabinets, like I am doing in the photo above.

This is why labelling is so important.

Viola! Perfectly aligned knobs every time.

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