Building A Cabinet Door Frame

Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors.

Building a cabinet door frame.

You also have to hang them. Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors. Finally screw the hinges and handle onto the door and install it to the cabinet. To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in.

And if you have a bunch to build you ll need a lot of clamps and even more space. Wood magazine s kevin boyle shows you this foolproof method expla. How to build and attach a cabinet faceframe build faceframe. Face frames cover plywood edges.

Get help with the hinges. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. I use wood glue and my k5 kreg jig set for 3 4 material and use 1 1 4 coarse thread pocket hole.

Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story. After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look. I generally always build my face frames out of 1 2 poplar when painting. I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame.

Once you ve cut the door out soften its sides with a router to get rid of any rough edges. For more tips including how to build a raised panel cabinet door read on. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had.

Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. 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.

In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen.