Building Frameless Plywood Cabinets

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

Building frameless plywood cabinets.

These parts vary slightly based on whether you are doing a face frame cabinet or frameless cabinet. 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. 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. Frameless cabinets don t always need to be finished.

Face frames cover plywood edges. The frameless cabinet design i find easiest to build install and provides exceptional strength is the one pictured right. Because of its simplicity a wall cabinet is ideal for demonstrating the key benefit of frameless construction. 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. Each cabinet carcass will have two sides made from 3 4 plywood. Frameless cabinet construction favors a cabinet box that uses a thicker stiffer plywood to make up for the lack. It is made of 3 4 plywood throughout including a full back.

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 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. The top consists of 2 4 stretchers. I built these cabinets frameless with full overlay doors to avoid having to use anything except plywood to build them.

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. If you want your new cabinet project to be as easy as possible consider building frameless cabinets. That design really fits well in the modern european style like i was going for. Before you go crazy in your kitchen with a sledgehammer and order a large pile of plywood try to build one small cabinet to make sure you re happy with your results.