Make Your Own Shaker Style Cabinet Doors

If you re building cabinets and you aren t familiar with medium density fiberboard then it s time to get acquainted.

Make your own shaker style cabinet doors.

All you have to do is measure the opening of the cabinet and then add the desired overlap. 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. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

Determine the cabinet size. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. In this case we will cover how to build shaker cabinet doors using the overlay style. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in.

This tutorial will be for how i actually transformed the doors into shaker style cabinets. Your cabinet opening is 17 x 37 so you would want your shaker cabinet door to be 18 x 38. Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue. This is pretty simple.

How to build shaker style kitchen cabinet doors on a budget. Building custom cabinetry can seem very daunting especially when you consider the doors and drawer fronts. Building shaker style cabinet doors with beadboard panels. Most people opt for 1 2 inch.

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. You have two options for your door. How to build a shaker cabinet door step 1. In this article i want to show you how to build shaker style cabinet doors.

My shaker style cabinet doors needed to be 13 5 inches wide by 39 5 inches tall. Shaker style cabinets supplies. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. Additionally the border can be inset into the door frame or you can go with an overlay plan.

I finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option. Mdf is one of the best materials you can use to fashion cabinets and make cabinet doors but if you re encountering it for the first time you need to know a bit about it before you use it for a project. While there are a few different ways that these d. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing.

However with some basic instruction building cabinet doors and drawers isn t that difficult. Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work. In this video i go over how to make simple shaker style doors with just a table saw. You can build your own from scratch or update a flat cabinet door that you already have.