Building A Cabinet Door Frame

Finally screw the hinges and handle onto the door and install it to the cabinet.

Building a cabinet door frame.

Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. 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. To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in.

After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look. Get help with the hinges. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen.

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. Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. And if you have a bunch to build you ll need a lot of clamps and even more space.

There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had. Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors. Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames. You ll find many door makers online search for buy cabinet doors.

Wood magazine s kevin boyle shows you this foolproof method expla. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Cabinet doors can be ordered in a variety of styles and in increments as small as 1 16 in.

From each end using the table saw.