Make Your Own Cabinet Doors

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.

Make your own cabinet doors.

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. I needed to make 9 cabinet doors. I contemplated purchasing custom cabinet doors for my hallway cabinets just like the replacement doors i purchased for my kitchen. So i decided to make my own diy cabinet doors this time.

But the last order i placed took about six weeks to get here and i didn t want to wait that long. Begin assembly of the door. 4 upper cabinet doors 1 lower cabinet door and 4 window seat doors. Make a no fuss case using your tablesaw.

Simply sand and stain or paint your shaker cabinet door add some awesome cabinet handles and hinges and you are good to go. 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. Ordinarily this will be the width of a table saw blade. A flat door panel will usually be made from 25 inch 6 mm plywood the same wood type as the rest of the cabinet.

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. You can pick any width you want for your cabinet door rails and stiles. It took about 15 minutes to make each door not including the time it took for the glue to dry. Each door is made up of 2 stiles 2 rails and a center panel.

The exact measurement of each piece depends on the final size of the cabinet door and the final method of building your cabinet doors. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. 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. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. To make trim for one cabinet door. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in.

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. 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. To save money i bought a 4 x 8 foot sheet of mdf board from lowe s for approximately 37 00. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated.