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Christine Nickerson | Design & DIY on Instagram: "If you’re looking to build some DIY cabinets or drawers, these are the steps I follow when finishing plywood.  The process can be a little bit tedious but the finish comes out so smooth! 

I use cabinet-grade maple or birch plywood for my builds and have not bought it prefinished before because: 

1. Not all of the pieces need to be finished, so I didn’t want to feel like I was “wasting” the more expensive prefinished plywood on certain parts of the cabinet.

2. For pieces that need edge banding, like drawers or shelves, it seems like it would be difficult to put a finish on the edge banding that would match the prefinished plywood.  So I’ve always just edge banded first and then applied my own finish.

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Christine Nickerson | Design & DIY on Instagram: "If you’re looking to build some DIY cabinets or drawers, these are the steps I follow when finishing plywood. The process can be a little bit tedious but the finish comes out so smooth! I use cabinet-grade maple or birch plywood for my builds and have not bought it prefinished before because: 1. Not all of the pieces need to be finished, so I didn’t want to feel like I was “wasting” the more expensive prefinished plywood on certain parts…

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Building with plywood is convenient and inexpensive, but the exposed edges typically look unfinished. To clean up the look without covering or hiding every edge, you can just cover them with a strip of self-adhesive veneer edge banding. This simple method makes plywood look more like a solid board without the upcharge. Read on to

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