Building Plywood Cabinet Doors

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions.

Building plywood cabinet doors.

They can be finished with paint stain followed by polyurethane or any other finish you deem appropriate. Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. For cabinet doors a plywood face can give you a finished look regardless of the type of plywood you ve chosen to use for the box construction. You also have to hang them.

Most cabinet doors still use a form of contoured design in which frames and panels are constructed so that the cabinet faces are dimensional rather than flat. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. X research source cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. Laminate is typically applied to the door panel although it is also possible to paint it or in the case of finer cabinet grade plywood to stain and varnish it.

Get help with the hinges. However flat panel doors otherwise known as slab cabinet doors are increasing in popularity largely because they lend a modern. Columbia s appalachian traditions line answers the need for the edge glued lumber or plank matched look perfectly. These smaller panels are a lot easier to handle than full sheets and since most of my cabinets were built 24 wide i did that on purpose i only had to cut the door panels down in one direction since the 2.

From each end using the table saw. This raised panel design such as is found in shaker style cabinets gives a very traditional look. While slab style cabinet doors can be built from plywood or melamine with the edges banded it is relatively simple to build slab doors from solid wood. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.

Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story. Probably the most inexpensive and versatile style of a cabinet door is the slab. Simple frameless doors can be made by simply cutting sanded or cabinet grade plywood to the required dimension. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible.

But i wanted a really nice natural color for the bottom doors so i used the hickory 2 x4 purebond plywood panels for the doors on the base cabinets and pantry.