Making Shaker Style Kitchen Cabinet Doors

This tutorial will be for how i actually transformed the doors into shaker style cabinets.

Making shaker style kitchen cabinet doors.

Simply sand and stain or paint your shaker cabinet door add some awesome cabinet handles and hinges and you are good to go. 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. I made two on the short ends and three on the long sides. In this article i want to show you how to build shaker style cabinet doors.

Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work. Remove all cabinet doors clean and lightly sand. While there are a few different ways that these d. I will be sharing with you my process for painting kitchen cabinets and doors tomorrow.

1 or 2 sheets of 4 8 1 4 plywood ripped down into 2 5 strips miter saw nail gun orbital sander detail sander. Other than the hinges there is no metal just wood and glue. Use liquid nails or wood glue to apply strips around the cabinet door. It took about 15 minutes to make each door not including the time it took for the glue to dry.

In this video i show how to make shaker style cabinet doors with a router. Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue. 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. Cut 1 4 mdf into 3 or 2 strips.

Cost per door is around 20 you can get about 6 center panels from each sheet of plywood. If you like this video please like. Shaker style doors are easy to build using basic shop tools like a table saw router and miter saw. A kreg jig makes these shaker style cabinet doors possible without having a router.

Once you have your panel cut make kreg jig pilot holes following ana s directions. Shaker style doors add a simple and clean look to your cabinets and add a level of true craftsmanship to your cabinet project. The shaker style of cabinetry can mean many things. Make sure you have the kreg jig to the right setting.

This article will cover how to build shaker style cabinet doors with a basic table saw. Although you can create the grooves for tenons using a router saw as well. However with some basic instruction building cabinet doors and drawers isn t that difficult. In this video i go over how to make simple shaker style doors with just a table saw.

These doors can also be made with a table saw. Shaker style cabinets supplies.