Build Your Own Cabinet Doors

To save money i bought a 4 x 8 foot sheet of mdf board from lowe s for approximately 37 00.

Build your own cabinet doors.

The most important part of building your own cabinet doors is to make sure you are working with straight lumber. 4 upper cabinet doors 1 lower cabinet door and 4 window seat doors. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. But the last order i placed took about six weeks to get here and i didn t want to wait that long.

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. If you missed part 1 of this project you can see it here. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. Even with expensive hardwood boards you need to look through the stock and check each board for straightness.

Total cut depth will be 1 2. I needed to make 9 cabinet doors. The cabinets are custom built in place and the boxes are all in great. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in.

How to build cabinet doors if you cut your dado 1 2 deep it s easy to figure out the math for your doors just add 1 to the width and length of the panel. Cabinet doors can make or break the look of your kitchen or bathroom cabinets and the longevity of the cabinets. For cabinets with face frames if doing inset doors subtract from both the height and width of your frame opening to get your door size. Start by ripping two side pieces to the.

Choose which door to make. Mark the back of each board so your dado lines up when you assemble your doors. There is no fixing that kinda ugly. The secret lies in the workmanship and quality of materials used to make cabinet doors.

So i decided to make. 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. If you do not know how to pick out straight boards check out the beginners guide to buying lumber for all the details. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel.

Make a no fuss case using your tablesaw. Now that s a lot of cabinets. 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. For cabinets with face frames if doing partial overlay add 2 times whatever you want your overlay to be to the height and width of your inside opening and be sure get hinges to match your overlay.

My hallway cabinets are still under construction. I have 62 cabinet doors and 24 draw fronts kitchen baths and laundry area and i have removed 6 cabinets over the bar.