Building A Cabinet Door

Mark the back of each board so your dado lines up when you assemble your doors.

Building a cabinet door. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Custom cabinet doors will get you one step closer to your dream kitchen. Face frames cover plywood edges. Replacing cabinet doors will give your room an instant facelift.

There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had. Building cabinet doors with crooked lumber will leave you with a crooked door. Plus building new doors is a way to reuse your cabinet boxes and achieve a whole new look. I wanted to accomplish a lot in this room new flooring new paint stackable laundry basket storage new cabinet doors shelving tile and more so i had to get creative i found a way to build cabinet doors for only 2 a piece by using inexpensive wood and beadboard i had leftover from our closet sliding barn doors.

In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen. Once you ve cut the door out soften its sides with a router to get rid of any rough edges. A budget of only 100 means you do not have a lot of money for each project. How to build cabinet doors if you cut your dado 1 2 deep it s easy to figure out the math for your doors just add 1 to the width and length of the panel.

From each end using the table saw. Get help with the hinges. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Total cut depth will be 1 2.

For more tips including how to build a raised panel cabinet door read on. I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame. Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story. When making cabinet doors for european style cabinets the doors will be the same height as the cabinet box.

1 2 of the panel will slide into the dado on all sides. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. 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. After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look.

You also have to hang them. Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. Diy cabinet doors are a great way to update an old space. Finally screw the hinges and handle onto the door and install it to the cabinet.

The width depends on whether it s a single or double door cabinet with a single door spanning the full width of the box and double doors only half the width. Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames.