Building A Cabinet Door Frame

Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames.

Building a cabinet door frame.

Wood magazine s kevin boyle shows you this foolproof method expla. Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors. For more tips including how to build a raised panel cabinet door read on. Finally screw the hinges and handle onto the door and install it to the cabinet.

Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. From each end using the table saw. Cabinet doors can be ordered in a variety of styles and in increments as small as 1 16 in. Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story.

Get help with the hinges. I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame. Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. 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. To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in. Face frames cover plywood edges. Once you ve cut the door out soften its sides with a router to get rid of any rough edges.

After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look. You also have to hang them. You ll find many door makers online search for buy cabinet doors. And if you have a bunch to build you ll need a lot of clamps and even more space.

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