Making Your Own Shaker Cabinet Doors

Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue.

Making your own shaker cabinet doors.

Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. Sizing the cabinet doors. You need some space to work preferably in the garage or the yard. Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work.

I finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option. Make sure you have the kreg jig to the right setting. Diy shaker cabinet doors is a project that requires some initial planning. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel.

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. For this article i m going to show you how to build shaker style cabinet doors using a table saw. Making simple frame and panel cabinet doors is fairly easy and the thing i like best is you can do this either on the table saw or a router table. 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.

Other than the hinges there is no metal just wood and glue. Simply sand and stain or paint your shaker cabinet door add some awesome cabinet handles and hinges and you are good to go. Shaker style doors add a simple and clean look to your cabinets and add a level of true craftsmanship to your cabinet project. I made two on the short ends and three on the long sides.

Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. It took about 15 minutes to make each door not including the time it took for the glue to dry. Once you have your panel cut make kreg jig pilot holes following ana s directions. Cost per door is around 20 you can get about 6 center panels from each sheet of plywood.

A kreg jig makes these shaker style cabinet doors possible without having a router. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. Stiles will run the entire height of the cabinet door and rails run between the length of the stiles. I have been making a lot of cabinet doors recently and in this video i show you my method for how to make shaker cabinet doors.

You need to remove the cabinet doors and the hinges from all the doors. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. Sand the front of the door to remove old lacquer dirt or paint. Although you can create the grooves for tenons using a router saw as well.