Make Your Own Cabinet Doors

Simply sand and stain or paint your shaker cabinet door add some awesome cabinet handles and hinges and you are good to go.

Make your own cabinet doors.

Begin assembly of the door. The exact measurement of each piece depends on the final size of the cabinet door and the final method of building your cabinet doors. A flat door panel will usually be made from 25 inch 6 mm plywood the same wood type as the rest of the cabinet. I typically use 1 3 boards for mine so they are 2 1 2 wide.

Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. So i decided to make my own diy cabinet doors this time. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. Next you will use the router to create a groove around the perimeter of the inside of the cabinet doors for the panel to sit inside.

4 upper cabinet doors 1 lower cabinet door and 4 window seat doors. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. Plywood thicknesses vary though so make certain your material thickness measures a true 3 4 or adjust your part dimensions to achieve the final cabinet width. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated.

You can pick any width you want for your cabinet door rails and stiles. To save money i bought a 4 x 8 foot sheet of mdf board from lowe s for approximately 37 00. Cost per door is around 20 you can get about 6 center panels from each sheet of plywood. Cut 2 rails the width of the cabinet doors minus 2x the width of the boards 1 3 boards are typically 2 1 2 but it is always a good idea to double check.

But the last order i placed took about six weeks to get here and i didn t want to wait that long. Ordinarily this will be the width of a table saw blade. We had the employees at lowe s cut the mdf board into 9 pieces using the measurements we gave them for each cabinet window seat door. I needed to make 9 cabinet doors.

To make trim for one cabinet door. I contemplated purchasing custom cabinet doors for my hallway cabinets just like the replacement doors i purchased for my kitchen. For a base cabinet less than 4 wide you can cut all the parts except the back and toekick from one 3 4 4 8 sheet of plywood or mdf. Then set the table saw blade to cut 3 8 inch deep and 1 2 inch wide cut the same 2 boards while they are laying flat.

Each door is made up of 2 stiles 2 rails and a center panel. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. Start by ripping two side pieces to the. Make a no fuss case using your tablesaw.