How to Install Nail Strips on Kitchen Cabinets

Nail strips are handy for hanging up utensils with hooks on their handles and keeping them off the countertop. Hanging them keeps them in sight and easy to reach while you are cooking or preparing food. Typically, nail strips are horizontal strips of hardwood that you attach to your cupboard with a series of decorative nails or hooks sunk into the wood. However, they can be as rustic or as polished as you like, depending on the decor of your kitchen.

Measuring tape
Hardwood strip
Wood saw
Sandpaper
Electric drill
Drill bits
Pencil
Level
Hammer
Decorative nails
1-inch bolts and wing nuts

Instructions

- 1
  Measure the horizontal length available on the side of your cabinet where you wish to hang your nail strip.
- 2
  Cut a piece of 2-to-3-inch-wide finished hardwood to the length of the cabinet measurement. Sand the end slightly to remove any rough edges with a piece of sandpaper.
- 3
  Drill three one-quarter-inch holes through the centerline of the wood strip, spaced evenly apart and starting at 1 inch from the outside edge of each end.
- 4
  Transfer the spacing of the holes to the cabinet and mark with a pencil. Check with a level to make sure they are lined up straight. Drill them out with the electric drill.
- 5
  Hammer several decorative nails spaced at least 1 inch apart from each other into the hardwood. Keep them at all the same depth.
- 6
  Slide a 1/4-inch bolt from the outside of the cabinet to the inside, through one of the one-quarter-inch hardwood holes from Step 3, and secure it with a wing nut. Hand tighten. Repeat for the other two one-quarter-inch hardwood holes from Step 3.

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