Make Your Own Cabinet Doors

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.

Make your own cabinet doors.

Next you will use the router to create a groove around the perimeter of the inside of the cabinet doors for the panel to sit inside. 4 upper cabinet doors 1 lower cabinet door and 4 window seat doors. To save money i bought a 4 x 8 foot sheet of mdf board from lowe s for approximately 37 00. The exact measurement of each piece depends on the final size of the cabinet door and the final method of building your cabinet doors.

Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. 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. A flat door panel will usually be made from 25 inch 6 mm plywood the same wood type as the rest of the cabinet. Use a table saw blade to cut a 1 x 2 x 8 1 inch deep and 3 8 inch wide cut 2 boards with the board being vertical.

Begin assembly of the door. Start by ripping two side pieces to the. Ordinarily this will be the width of a table saw blade. To make trim for one cabinet 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. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. So i decided to make my own diy cabinet doors this time. Cut 2 rails the width of the cabinet doors minus 2x the width of the boards 1 3 boards are typically 2 1 2 but it is always a good idea to double check.

Each door is made up of 2 stiles 2 rails and a center panel. Simply sand and stain or paint your shaker cabinet door add some awesome cabinet handles and hinges and you are good to go. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. I needed to make 9 cabinet doors.

Make a no fuss case using your tablesaw. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. But the last order i placed took about six weeks to get here and i didn t want to wait that long.

I contemplated purchasing custom cabinet doors for my hallway cabinets just like the replacement doors i purchased for my kitchen. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. Cost per door is around 20 you can get about 6 center panels from each sheet of plywood. You can pick any width you want for your cabinet door rails and stiles.