Making My Own Cabinet Doors

Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing.

Making my own cabinet doors. Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. Cabinet doors can make or break the look of your kitchen or bathroom cabinets and the longevity of the cabinets. 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.

Now you just need to repeat to build cabinet doors for the rest of your cabinets. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. 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 want to finish off the inside of the cabinet doors fill the pocket holes with plugs.

I needed to make 9 cabinet doors. To save money i bought a 4 x 8 foot sheet of mdf board from lowe s for approximately 37 00. Here s a classic way to put together a strong good looking door without making any unsightly holes. Whether you are remodeling a kitchen bathroom laundry room or any room with built in cabinets you can build your own cabinet doors to make your space look like new again.

If you missed part 1 of this project you can see it here. Choose which door to make. Make a no fuss case using your tablesaw. 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.

But the last order i placed took about six weeks to get here and i didn t want to wait that long. Diy cabinet doors are a great way to update an old space. So i decided to make. 4 upper cabinet doors 1 lower cabinet door and 4 window seat doors.

My hallway cabinets are still under construction. My shaker style cabinet doors needed to be 13 5 inches wide by 39 5 inches tall. Replacing cabinet doors will give your room an instant facelift. I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame.

It took me less than 2 hours to build these 4 cabinet doors and sand them so they were ready to paint. 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. Start by ripping two side pieces to the. There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had.