Build A Cabinet Door

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

Build a cabinet door.

Simply sand and stain or paint your shaker cabinet door add some awesome cabinet handles and hinges and you are good to go. You can pick any width you want for your cabinet door rails and stiles. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

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. 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. Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction.

1 2 of the panel will slide into the dado on all sides. Measure the distance between the screws on the door pull and set the. 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. At 24 deep standard base cabinets allow you to bend over and reach in to retrieve anything at the back.

With the front side of the door facing up use a cabinet hardware jig to attach door handles or pulls in a consistent location. Standard base cabinets measure 34 1 2 high for a 36 high work surface with a 1 1 2 countertop. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. A flat door panel will usually be made from 25 inch 6 mm plywood the same wood type as the rest of the cabinet.

Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. Cost per door is around 20 you can get about 6 center panels from each sheet of plywood. Make cabinets as wide as you like but remember that the wider the doors the greater the tendency to rack and warp. There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had.

Mark the back of each board so your dado lines up when you assemble your doors. 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. I typically use 1 3 boards for mine so they are 2 1 2 wide. Total cut depth will be 1 2.

The exact measurement of each piece depends on the final size of the cabinet door and the final method of building your cabinet doors. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. Ordinarily this will be the width of a table saw blade.