Making Shaker Style Cabinet Doors

I will be sharing with you my process for painting kitchen cabinets and doors tomorrow.

Making shaker style cabinet doors.

And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend. Most people opt for 1 2 inch. I finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option. However with some basic instruction building cabinet doors and drawers isn t that difficult.

Although you can create the grooves for tenons using a router saw as well. My shaker style cabinet doors needed to be 13 5 inches wide by 39 5 inches tall. How to build shaker style kitchen cabinet doors on a budget. While there are a few different ways that these d.

This tutorial will be for how i actually transformed the doors into shaker style cabinets. Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work. These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming. All you have to do is measure the opening of the cabinet and then add the desired overlap.

To create the panel and frame cabinet doors you are going to need to create two rails two stiles and a single panel for each door. This article will cover how to build shaker style cabinet doors with a basic table saw. 1 or 2 sheets of 4 8 1 4 plywood ripped down into 2 5 strips miter saw nail gun orbital sander detail sander. Determine the cabinet size.

And if you are starting with wood that is already surfaced and squared then you can build the entire door with just a table saw and miter saw. Shaker style doors add a simple and clean look to your cabinets and add a level of true craftsmanship to your cabinet project. This is pretty simple. I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel.

Other than the hinges there is no metal just wood and glue. But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built. Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue. Shaker style doors are easy to build using basic shop tools like a table saw router and miter saw.

In this article i want to show you how to build shaker style cabinet doors. The shaker style of cabinetry can mean many things. In this video i go over how to make simple shaker style doors with just a table saw. Since the outside boards will be 1x3s actually 75x 2 5 i subtracted 5 inches from the.

I started off by taking all of the cabinet doors off and measuring them to see how big i needed to make the shaker cabinet doors. How to build a shaker cabinet door step 1.