Building A Cabinet Door Frame

Face frames cover plywood edges.

Building a cabinet door frame.

The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Get help with the hinges. You ll find many door makers online search for buy cabinet doors.

I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame. Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors. Once you ve cut the door out soften its sides with a router to get rid of any rough edges. For more tips including how to build a raised panel cabinet door read on.

There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had. Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. You also have to hang them. After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look.

The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. And if you have a bunch to build you ll need a lot of clamps and even more space. If staining your piece you want to match your face frame wood as closely as possible to your carcass lumber.

How to build and attach a cabinet faceframe build faceframe. I use wood glue and my k5 kreg jig set for 3 4 material and use 1 1 4 coarse thread pocket hole. From each end using the table saw. To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in.

I generally always build my face frames out of 1 2 poplar when painting. Cabinet doors can be ordered in a variety of styles and in increments as small as 1 16 in. In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen. Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story.

Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames.