Building A Cabinet Door Frame

Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story.

Building a cabinet door frame.

To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. Cabinet doors can be ordered in a variety of styles and in increments as small as 1 16 in.

And if you have a bunch to build you ll need a lot of clamps and even more space. You ll find many door makers online search for buy cabinet doors. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Get help with the hinges.

Wood magazine s kevin boyle shows you this foolproof method expla. You also have to hang them. Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors. There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had.

I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame. From each end using the table saw. Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible.

After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look. Face frames cover plywood edges. In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen. Finally screw the hinges and handle onto the door and install it to the cabinet.

Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.