Building Frameless Plywood Cabinets

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

Building frameless plywood cabinets.

That being said the total depth of my base cabinets including the door was about 24 deep and upper cabinets was about 13. It is made of 3 4 plywood throughout including a full back. If you use melamine for your boxes drawers and doors you can avoid the finishing process completely and move directly from construction to installation. Frameless cabinets don t always need to be finished.

The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. The frameless cabinet design i find easiest to build install and provides exceptional strength is the one pictured right. I built these cabinets frameless with full overlay doors to avoid having to use anything except plywood to build them. As the trend toward european style frameless cabinets continues to grow many cabinet builders are discovering that the composite plywood they ve been using to build framed cabinets isn t quite doing the job as well as it should.

Building plywood upper kitchen cabinets even spectacular upper kitchen cabinets can be made simply with only a few pieces of hardware and some relatively straightforward construction. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Building simple frameless kitchen cabinets with pocket screws euro style i m back in the shop of bng dayton between cabin trips i use some down time to b. Frameless cabinet construction favors a cabinet box that uses a thicker stiffer plywood to make up for the lack.

These parts vary slightly based on whether you are doing a face frame cabinet or frameless cabinet. If you are building cabinets for a kitchen all your base cabinet side will be the exact same size and all your wall cabinet sides will be the exact same. Face frames cover plywood edges. Because of its simplicity a wall cabinet is ideal for demonstrating the key benefit of frameless construction.

If you want your new cabinet project to be as easy as possible consider building frameless cabinets. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. While building frameless cabinets isn t very difficult it is important that the cuts are accurate and the pieces as well as the assembly is square. Before you go crazy in your kitchen with a sledgehammer and order a large pile of plywood try to build one small cabinet to make sure you re happy with your results.