Making My Own Cabinet Doors

Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames.

Making my own cabinet doors.

Here s a classic way to put together a strong good looking door without making any unsightly holes. If you want to finish off the inside of the cabinet doors fill the pocket holes with plugs. 4 upper cabinet doors 1 lower cabinet door and 4 window seat doors. There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had.

Replacing cabinet doors will give your room an instant facelift. I needed to make 9 cabinet doors. Make a no fuss case using your tablesaw. If you are making multiple cabinet doors create an assembly line.

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 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. 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. It took me less than 2 hours to build these 4 cabinet doors and sand them so they were ready to paint.

My hallway cabinets are still under construction. Diy hallway cabinets part 1 i contemplated purchasing custom cabinet doors for my hallway cabinets just like the replacement doors i purchased for my kitchen. The secret lies in the workmanship and quality of materials used to make cabinet doors. Since the outside boards will be 1x3s actually 75x 2 5 i subtracted 5 inches from the width and height to get the measurement needed for my inside panel 8 5 x 34 5.

It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. Choose which door to make. If you missed part 1 of this project you can see it here.

I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame. So i decided to make. Diy cabinet doors are a great way to update an old space. But the last order i placed took about six weeks to get here and i didn t want to wait that long.

Start by ripping two side pieces to the. Now you just need to repeat to build cabinet doors for the rest of your cabinets. To save money i bought a 4 x 8 foot sheet of mdf board from lowe s for approximately 37 00. Cabinet doors can make or break the look of your kitchen or bathroom cabinets and the longevity of the cabinets.