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.

Building a cabinet door frame.

Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story. Wood magazine s kevin boyle shows you this foolproof method expla. Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. Finally screw the hinges and handle onto the door and install it to the cabinet.

Get help with the hinges. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. For more tips including how to build a raised panel cabinet door read on.

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. And if you have a bunch to build you ll need a lot of clamps and even more space. Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors. There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had.

I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. From each end using the table saw. You also have to hang them.

Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. Cabinet doors can be ordered in a variety of styles and in increments as small as 1 16 in. To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in. Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames.

In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen.