Building Frameless Plywood Cabinets

Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.

Building frameless plywood cabinets. Frameless cabinet construction favors a cabinet box that uses a thicker stiffer plywood to make up for the lack. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. It is made of 3 4 plywood throughout including a full back.

If you are building cabinets for a kitchen all your base cabinet side will be the exact same size and all your wall cabinet sides will be the exact same. Each cabinet carcass will have two sides made from 3 4 plywood. The frameless cabinet design i find easiest to build install and provides exceptional strength is the one pictured right. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible.

Face frames cover plywood edges. While building frameless cabinets isn t very difficult it is important that the cuts are accurate and the pieces as well as the assembly is square. If you use melamine for your boxes drawers and doors you can avoid the finishing process completely and move directly from construction to installation. As the trend toward european style frameless cabinets continues to grow many cabinet builders are discovering that the composite plywood they ve been using to build framed cabinets isn t quite doing the job as well as it should.

If you want your new cabinet project to be as easy as possible consider building frameless cabinets. I built these cabinets frameless with full overlay doors to avoid having to use anything except plywood to build them. These parts vary slightly based on whether you are doing a face frame cabinet or frameless cabinet. That design really fits well in the modern european style like i was going for.

Building simple frameless kitchen cabinets with pocket screws euro style i m back in the shop of bng dayton between cabin trips i use some down time to b. The top consists of 2 4 stretchers. Building plywood upper kitchen cabinets even spectacular upper kitchen cabinets can be made simply with only a few pieces of hardware and some relatively straightforward construction. That being said the total depth of my base cabinets including the door was about 24 deep and upper cabinets was about 13.