Build My Own Kitchen Cabinet Doors

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

Build my own kitchen cabinet doors.

Cut your center panel out of 1 2 plywood. Use a circular saw with guide track to make cutting plywood quick and easy. Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. Cut center panel to the final height of the cabinet door minus the rails width x2 and the width of the cabinet door minus the stiles width x2 step 1.

The most important part of building your own cabinet doors is to make sure you are working with straight lumber. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. I needed to make 9 cabinet doors. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy.

Apply glue with a brush to the inside of the stile where the rail meets it and insert the. 4 upper cabinet doors 1 lower cabinet door and 4 window seat doors. For this particular situation i installed the doors on the cabinets in my shop to ensure a good fit transported them to my sister s garage removed the doors from the hinges painted installed the cabinets then re attached the doors. If you do not know how to pick out straight boards check out the beginners guide to buying lumber for all the details.

Cut your rails and styles to length. 3 4 inch cabinet grade pine plywood for the door 1 x 2 inch select pine trim wood glue we use elmers 1 inch brad nails to hold in place while drying table saw power saw and miter saw you can rent these for a day or buy them and remodel your whole house. Begin assembly of the door. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated.

We re used and installed the cabinet shelves from our kitchen makeover but we had to make new cabinet doors so they would match throughout the office.