Making My Own Cabinet Doors

Here s a classic way to put together a strong good looking door without making any unsightly holes.

Making my own cabinet doors.

Make a no fuss case using your tablesaw. If you want to finish off the inside of the cabinet doors fill the pocket holes with plugs. 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. I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame.

If you are making multiple cabinet doors create an assembly line. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. Now you just need to repeat to build cabinet doors for the rest of your cabinets. I needed to make 9 cabinet doors.

If you missed part 1 of this project you can see it here. It took me less than 2 hours to build these 4 cabinet doors and sand them so they were ready to paint. My hallway cabinets are still under construction. The secret lies in the workmanship and quality of materials used to make cabinet doors.

Start by ripping two side pieces to the. There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had. Whether you are remodeling a kitchen bathroom laundry room or any room with built in cabinets you can build your own cabinet doors to make your space look like new again. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing.

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. To save money i bought a 4 x 8 foot sheet of mdf board from lowe s for approximately 37 00. Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames. So i decided to make.

4 upper cabinet doors 1 lower cabinet door and 4 window seat doors. My shaker style cabinet doors needed to be 13 5 inches wide by 39 5 inches tall. Replacing cabinet doors will give your room an instant facelift. 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.

Cabinet doors can make or break the look of your kitchen or bathroom cabinets and the longevity of the cabinets. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. Since the outside boards will be 1x3s actually 75x 2 5 i subtracted 5 inches from the width and height to get the measurement needed for my inside panel 8 5 x 34 5. But the last order i placed took about six weeks to get here and i didn t want to wait that long.