Building A Cabinet Door Frame

I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame.

Building a cabinet door frame.

Once you ve cut the door out soften its sides with a router to get rid of any rough edges. Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in. In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen.

Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. You ll find many door makers online search for buy cabinet doors. You also have to hang them. Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors.

Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions.

Face frames cover plywood edges. Wood magazine s kevin boyle shows you this foolproof method expla. After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look. 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. Cabinet doors can be ordered in a variety of styles and in increments as small as 1 16 in. Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. Get help with the hinges.

And if you have a bunch to build you ll need a lot of clamps and even more space.