How To Make Simple Kitchen Cabinet Doors

Ive got a detailed explanation of how to determine your door size in this post.

How to make simple kitchen cabinet doors. Cut the cabinet bottom to. These kitchen base cabinet ideas are ideal for both modern and vintage style homes. Multiply the thickness of the plywood or MDF sides times two.

Cut Cabinet Door Frame Pieces. With the plywood cut to size your cabinet should take an hour and two to assemble. Most slab doors are made of plywood.

With the tongue and groove joints cut the next step is to assemble the boards that will make up the cabinet doors. Draw the four sides of a cabinet makers triangle to identify which part goes where. There are two basic types of cabinet doors -- slab and flat panel -- most often chosen.

Cut center panel to the final height of the cabinet door minus the rails width x2 and the width of the cabinet door minus the stiles width x2 Step 1. This is standard but make. Apply a thin layer of glue to all surfaces of each groove and insert the corresponding tongue.

Colorful Kitchen Cabinet Doors. And if you are making a double door cabinet like one where you have two doors that meet in the middle measure just like above then subtract from the width to give you an gap between the doors then divide that number by two to get the width for your each of the two separate doors. If youre new to woodworking then you know what its lik.

Use a table saw to cut plywood strips for your face frame cabinets. Make sure your 1x3s are actually 2 ½ wide. Heres the full tutorial.