Build A Cabinet Door

Mark the back of each board so your dado lines up when you assemble your doors.

Build a cabinet door.

Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. Measure the distance between the screws on the door pull and set the. Begin assembly of the door. Total cut depth will be 1 2.

At 24 deep standard base cabinets allow you to bend over and reach in to retrieve anything at the back. Next you will use the router to create a groove around the perimeter of the inside of the cabinet doors for the panel to sit inside. Make cabinets as wide as you like but remember that the wider the doors the greater the tendency to rack and warp. You can pick any width you want for your cabinet door rails and stiles.

It took about 15 minutes to make each door not including the time it took for the glue to dry. I typically use 1 3 boards for mine so they are 2 1 2 wide. The exact measurement of each piece depends on the final size of the cabinet door and the final method of building your cabinet doors. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames. How to build cabinet doors if you cut your dado 1 2 deep it s easy to figure out the math for your doors just add 1 to the width and length of the panel. Cost per door is around 20 you can get about 6 center panels from each sheet of plywood.

Cut 2 stiles the height of the cabinet doors cut 2 rails the width of the cabinet doors minus 2x the width of the boards 1 3 boards are typically 2 1 2 but it is always a good idea to double check. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. Ordinarily this will be the width of a table saw blade. There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had.

Simply sand and stain or paint your shaker cabinet door add some awesome cabinet handles and hinges and you are good to go. Standard base cabinets measure 34 1 2 high for a 36 high work surface with a 1 1 2 countertop. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. Each door is made up of 2 stiles 2 rails and a center panel.

I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame. In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen. 1 2 of the panel will slide into the dado on all sides.