How To Make Simple Kitchen Cabinet Doors

Begin to cut your cabinet doors and then situate them in place to make sure they fit properly before you begin to band the edges.

How to make simple kitchen cabinet doors. If you prefer the look of shaker or recessed panel doors you can forgo the decorative trim and just use flat thin pieces of wood like a wide thin lattice and attach it around the edges of the face of the door to look like shaker doors. This is standard but make. For this particular tutorial take the total width the door needs to be and subtract 5.

Ive got a detailed explanation of how to determine your door size in this post. 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. At 452 in the video I said chamfer router bit by accident I meant to say Rabbeting router bit.

Detachable vinyl panels are a boon for the lazy DIYer. If youre new to woodworking then you know what its lik. Immediately wipe off any glue that seeps out of the joint as the glue could cause an issue with finishing the cabinet door later.

Subtract that number from the case width. With the plywood cut to size your cabinet should take an hour and two to assemble. With the tongue and groove joints cut the next step is to assemble the boards that will make up the cabinet doors.

In this video I am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen. Subtract 34 to allow for two 38 -deep dadoes joining the bottom to the sides. Step 1 Choose which door to make.

Cut your rails and styles to length. Quick and Easy Cabinet Doors. Heres the full tutorial.