How To Make Face Frame Cabinet Doors

Choose which door to make.

How to make face frame cabinet doors.

Begin by drilling 1 3 8 holes 1 2 deep with a forstner bit below. In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen. Lets update an old cabinet and make it look new again. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

I generally always build my face frames out of 1 2 poplar when painting. Full overlay cabinet door tutorial. Above the bottom shelf of the cabinet. Thanks to their adjustability european style hinges make mounting doors as easy as assembling them.

Here are all of the rough cut parts for the eleven doors i ll need. Start by taking a survey of your existing cabinets. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. These reveals may as large as 1 to 2 in some cases.

Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. On the outside edge. With all of the upper cabinets for my kitchen made and installed i moved on to making the cabinet doors. 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. Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in. I use wood glue and my k5 kreg jig set for 3 4 material and use 1 1 4 coarse thread pocket hole. Most existing face frame cabinets will have large reveals gaps between the doors and drawer fronts.

How to build and attach a cabinet faceframe build faceframe. The process at least. Now mount the doors on your cabinet. Build the face frame so that the bottom rail rails are horizontal boards and stiles are vertical boards projects 1 16 in.

For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. If staining your piece you want to match your face frame wood as closely as possible to your carcass lumber. This makes room for adjustments when installing them next to one another.