- 1). Measure each spoon from the lowest point of its bowl to 1 inch from the end of its handle. Mark these locations on the back of the spoon with a felt-tip marker. Measure each butter knife from 1 inch below the tip to 1 inch from its handle’s end. Mark these locations too. Make your forks’ marks directly below where the tines’ valleys end and 1 inch from the tip of the handle.
- 2). Transfer your measurements from the silverware onto a piece of butcher paper. Mark each set of spacings by two dots; use a straight edge to properly line up the dots. Make dot pairings to represent each piece you’ll use. Place an aluminum screw post over each dot.
- 3). Dab a dot of glue on the top of each screw post. Carefully center a piece of silverware over each glued post pairing, matching up the dots on the back of the silverware with the screw posts.
- 4). Put a piece of silverware flat against the cabinet, with the front of the piece facing you. Play with its placement until you find a position that pleases your eye. Try these placements: horizontally along the bottom center of the door or near the opening side of the door, vertically along the door’s opening edge at the bottom corner or higher along that same edge, but more towards the center.
- 5). Outline your preferred placement in chalk. Measure how far from the door’s edges the outline sits, then transfer these measurements to your other doors. You now know where you’ll install all your cabinet handles.
- 6). Transfer your spacing measurements onto the outlines you just drew. Draw your representative dots starting 1 inch from the bottom of each vertical outline or 1 inch from the left of a horizontal outline. This will give your installed handles a matched, harmonious appearance.
- 7). Drill a hole straight through each dot you just drew. Wipe away any remaining chalk with a damp rag.
- 8). Open the cabinet doors and insert screws through the holes so that the pointy end of the screw emerges from the front of the cabinet. Fit your silverware's post holes over these emerging screw tips and screw the tips into the post holes to attach your silverware cabinet handles.
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