Building Face Frame Cabinets

The faceframe is assembled using pockehole screws and atta.

Building face frame cabinets.

Quick and easy way to make and attach a face frame to a cabinet using pocket hole screws and glue. This makes room for adjustments when installing them next to one another. Face frames cover plywood edges. When it comes to assembling face frames for cabinets there s nothing faster than pocket hole joints each joint takes about 90 seconds apiece using a store bought jig.

Above the bottom shelf of the cabinet. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers.

However there are a few important things to consider when planning your cabinet layout. Well since the face frame is 1 4 bigger on the ends you can simply use 1 4 plywood in matching veneer or painted as we did to finish out those ends. Attaching the frame to the case hides the holes. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups.

I definitely recommend face frame cabinets over frameless or euro style and the good news is face frames are pretty easy to build. Face frames are one of the easiest parts of a cabinet that there is to build. So today i thought that i would share with you this quick tutorial on how to build face frames with the intention of pointing out those very important considerations. Pocket hole screws give the frame all the strength it needs and then some.

Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in. On the outside edge. In the last posts i explained three methods for building cabinets and basic techniques for cabinet building. This post applies to building and attaching a cabinet face frame which is the next step to building a cabinet.

There are several methods i use to attach the face frame but i generally always build the face frame with pocket hole screws.