Making Shaker Kitchen Doors

Shaker doors are some of the simplest to build.

Making shaker kitchen doors.

While there are many options for door making the standard is frame and panel doors. For this article i m going to show you how to build shaker style cabinet doors using a table saw. Make sure you have the kreg jig to the right setting. An 8 foot piece of 1 x 2 red oak strips is around 10.

How to build shaker style kitchen cabinet doors on a budget. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. A kreg jig makes these shaker style cabinet doors possible without having a router. Luckily this can be easily found at most home improvement stores.

Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming. Once you have your panel cut make kreg jig pilot holes following ana s directions.

However you could make the grooves and tenons using a router table just as easily. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. Making simple frame and panel cabinet doors is fairly easy and the thing i like best is you can do this either on the table saw or a router table. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel.

The simplest form of the frame and panel door is the shaker style door known for its no frills look clean and simple. But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built. I made two on the short ends and three on the long sides. These are doors with a frame made most of the time from hardwood and a panel made of anything from solid wood to plywood to mdf.

For the panel the center of the cabinet door you will use 1 4 red oak plywood. The stiles of the shaker cabinet door the pieces that make the frame are usually 2 wide and 3 4 to 1 thick. And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue. I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel. I finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option.