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. If staining your piece you want to match your face frame wood as closely as possible to your carcass lumber. I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame. Get help with the hinges.

And if you have a bunch to build you ll need a lot of clamps and even more space. For more tips including how to build a raised panel cabinet door read on. How to build and attach a cabinet faceframe build faceframe. Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors.

The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Face frames cover plywood edges. Cabinet doors can be ordered in a variety of styles and in increments as small as 1 16 in. In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen.

Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in. There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had. Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames.

From each end using the table saw. You also have to hang them. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look.

Wood magazine s kevin boyle shows you this foolproof method expla. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors.

You ll find many door makers online search for buy cabinet doors.