Building Face Frame Kitchen Cabinets

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions.

Building face frame kitchen cabinets.

How to build and attach a cabinet faceframe build faceframe. Materials for this kitchen plan include cabinet plywood preferably purebond shown boards for the top and bottom support ripped plywood strips for the toe kick and. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. If staining your piece you want to match your face frame wood as closely as possible to your carcass lumber.

Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. A face frame is basically a frame usually made of hardwood in a species for the final finish of the cabinet. In this episode wood.

To build a kitchen cabinet start by cutting the side and bottom panels out of some mdf or plywood. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Then cut 4 panels out of 1 by 6 lumber for the base panels and top bracers and cut 4 more panels for the face of the cabinet. Learn how to make a lower cabinet face frame.

After building a kitchen cabinet carcass see video tutorial here and written post here it s time to put a face frame on the carcass. This is just one element of a complete series on how to make simple face frame cabinets. Steve maxwell s building traditional face frame cabinets has some of the best no nonsense advice and designs i ve come across and the included videos are very helpful in explaining the entire process in a clear hands on way. Any woodworker with intermediate to advanced skill level can tackle this diy project.

Wood magazine s kevin boyle shows you this foolproof method expla. Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in. This makes room for adjustments when installing them next to one another. A face frame base kitchen cabinet carcass is ideal for both new and remodeled kitchen plans.

I m been planning a kitchen remodel so i ve been pouring over all of the resources i can on building kitchen cabinets. Build the face frame so that the bottom rail rails are horizontal boards and stiles are vertical boards projects 1 16 in. I generally always build my face frames out of 1 2 poplar when painting.