Cabinet Door Rail And Stile Dimensions

Clint barden asheville n c.

Cabinet door rail and stile dimensions.

Rail width door width stile width 2 panel groove depth 2 for example a 18 wide door with 2 1 4 wide stiles and a panel groove of 3 8. The small drawer fronts will have skinnier top and bottom rail to the the hardware can fit comfortably but the stiles will be same as the cabinet or drawer door below. Is there a standard rail and stile width for kitchen cabinet doors. If you ever want to consider making a design change try using 2 1 2 stiles and rails for doors and 2 1 2 stiles with 1 1 2 rails for drawer heads.

I have used the same stile and rail width on the first few inset jobs out of habit but it seems like they are too wide proportionally with the inset doors so now i have gone to using all 1 1 4 inch stiles and rails and it looks better. Width of stiles can vary for a chunky appearance with smaller panels with 2 1 2 to 3 stiles to a slimmer look with 1 3 4 stiles. The cabinet maker is suggesting 2 1 2 inches. I was thinking of using 2 face frame material for the door frames to save milling time but i think it might look a bit dainty.

There s nothing dainty about that 2 door frame size clint. The basic structure of shaker cabinets is no different than any other cabinet using hardwood face frames which is almost always 3 4 inch thick. It is regularly done that way around here ne texas. Arched doors typically add the rise of the arch to the width of bottom rail.

Typical vertical stiles for face frames are all 3 inches wide. For the overlay doors i have been making all perimeter rails and stiles 1 3 4 inches and all middle stile and rails at 2 1 4 inches so i end up with 1 1 4 inch of all of the stiles and rails exposed with my 1 2 inch overlay doors. Door height inches or mm door width inches or mm stile width inches or mm rail width inches or mm interlock depth inches or mm panel float inches or mm. Draw some doors to scale and see which proportion catches your eye most.

The width of the rails is equal to the width of the door minus the width of 2 stiles plus the depth of the panel groove connection joint on each stile. Typical horizontal rails are 1 4 inch wide at the bottom of the face frame with 2 inch wide rails between drawers and door openings. Calculate cabinet door rail stile and panel sizes enter the values below to calculate the sizes for rails stiles and panel.