Building A Cabinet Door Frame

You also have to hang them.

Building a cabinet door frame. From each end using the table saw. Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames. 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. I generally always build my face frames out of 1 2 poplar when painting. You ll find many door makers online search for buy cabinet doors. Once you ve cut the door out soften its sides with a router to get rid of any rough edges.

I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame. Finally screw the hinges and handle onto the door and install it to the cabinet. Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. Face frames cover plywood edges.

If staining your piece you want to match your face frame wood as closely as possible to your carcass lumber. In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in.

Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors. Get help with the hinges. And if you have a bunch to build you ll need a lot of clamps and even more space. After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look.

There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had. 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. How to build and attach a cabinet faceframe build faceframe.

Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story.