How To Make Wood Doors For Cabinets

Face frames cover plywood edges.

How to make wood doors for cabinets. Whether you are remodeling a kitchen bathroom laundry room or any room with built in cabinets you can build your own cabinet doors to make your space look like new again. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

Secure with 2 pocket hole screws. How to build a simple 2 door wooden cabinet step 1. Drawer slides for however many drawers you are making. Start by cutting the birch plywood for the cabinet sides top bottom shelves and cleats.

Plywood or a solid wood panel for the door panels. This simple cabinet door can be built from solid wood banded plywood or even melamine. Diy cabinet doors are a great way to update an old space. I used overlay door hinges.

Cabinet door hinges for whatever style door you are making. Begin assembly of the door. Solid wood of choice for the face frame door frame and drawer front. The sample base and wall cabinets shown belowhave these features to make building them as simple as possible.

In these free woodworking plans learn how to build some inexpensive versatile european slab style cabinet doors. Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. Apply glue with a brush to the inside of the stile where the rail meets it and insert the.

Add 2 pocket holes with the kreg jig to each side of the rails on the back of the boards. Wood magazine s kevin boyle shows you this foolproof method explaining every step from layout to. Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. When that s done use a portable drill guide and bore the holes for the shelf pins in the.

Add a bit of wood glue to the edge of the rail then secure it to the edge of the stiles. I used euro style drawer slides in this build. Now it is finally time to build cabinet doors. Part of the appeal of the slab style cabinet door is that they can be finished in nearly any fashion.

The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel.