Build My Own Kitchen Cabinet Doors

If you do not know how to pick out straight boards check out the beginners guide to buying lumber for all the details.

Build my own kitchen cabinet doors.

Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. Cut your center panel out of 1 2 plywood. 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.

4 upper cabinet doors 1 lower cabinet door and 4 window seat doors. Even with expensive hardwood boards you need to look through the stock and check each board for straightness. Apply glue with a brush to the inside of the stile where the rail meets it and insert the. For this particular situation i installed the doors on the cabinets in my shop to ensure a good fit transported them to my sister s garage removed the doors from the hinges painted installed the cabinets then re attached the doors.

To save money i bought a 4 x 8 foot sheet of mdf board from lowe s for approximately. Cut your rails and styles to length. I needed to make 9 cabinet doors. Use a circular saw with guide track to make cutting plywood quick and easy.

For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. The most important part of building your own cabinet doors is to make sure you are working with straight lumber. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

We re used and installed the cabinet shelves from our kitchen makeover but we had to make new cabinet doors so they would match throughout the office.