Make Your Own Cabinet Doors

Ordinarily this will be the width of a table saw blade.

Make your own cabinet doors.

Begin assembly of the door. 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. So i decided to make my own diy cabinet doors this time. 4 upper cabinet doors 1 lower cabinet door and 4 window seat doors.

Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. I typically use 1 3 boards for mine so they are 2 1 2 wide. Use a table saw blade to cut a 1 x 2 x 8 1 inch deep and 3 8 inch wide cut 2 boards with the board being vertical. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

I contemplated purchasing custom cabinet doors for my hallway cabinets just like the replacement doors i purchased for my kitchen. Make a no fuss case using your tablesaw. To save money i bought a 4 x 8 foot sheet of mdf board from lowe s for approximately 37 00. You can pick any width you want for your cabinet door rails and stiles.

Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. 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. Start by ripping two side pieces to the. Cost per door is around 20 you can get about 6 center panels from each sheet of plywood.

To make trim for one cabinet door. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. 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.

It took about 15 minutes to make each door not including the time it took for the glue to dry. The exact measurement of each piece depends on the final size of the cabinet door and the final method of building your cabinet doors. 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. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel.

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. 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. Simply sand and stain or paint your shaker cabinet door add some awesome cabinet handles and hinges and you are good to go. Each door is made up of 2 stiles 2 rails and a center panel.