Building A Cabinet Door Frame

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions.

Building a cabinet door frame.

The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. You also have to hang them. For more tips including how to build a raised panel cabinet door read on. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups.

Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames. How to build and attach a cabinet faceframe build faceframe. If staining your piece you want to match your face frame wood as closely as possible to your carcass lumber. You ll find many door makers online search for buy cabinet doors.

Get help with the hinges. Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. Wood magazine s kevin boyle shows you this foolproof method expla. I use wood glue and my k5 kreg jig set for 3 4 material and use 1 1 4 coarse thread pocket hole.

After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look. I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame. Cabinet doors can be ordered in a variety of styles and in increments as small as 1 16 in. I generally always build my face frames out of 1 2 poplar when painting.

Once you ve cut the door out soften its sides with a router to get rid of any rough edges. Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story. There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.

From each end using the table saw. Finally screw the hinges and handle onto the door and install it to the cabinet. Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. And if you have a bunch to build you ll need a lot of clamps and even more space.

To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in.