Building A Cabinet Door Frame

I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame.

Building a cabinet door frame.

You also have to hang them. Once you ve cut the door out soften its sides with a router to get rid of any rough edges. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible.

I use wood glue and my k5 kreg jig set for 3 4 material and use 1 1 4 coarse thread pocket hole. Cabinet doors can be ordered in a variety of styles and in increments as small as 1 16 in. I generally always build my face frames out of 1 2 poplar when painting. How to build and attach a cabinet faceframe build faceframe.

In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen. Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors. Face frames cover plywood edges. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups.

There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had. Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. From each end using the table saw. You ll find many door makers online search for buy cabinet doors.

For more tips including how to build a raised panel cabinet door read on. Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story. Finally screw the hinges and handle onto the door and install it to the cabinet. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions.

To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in. Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look. Get help with the hinges.

Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames.