Build My Own Kitchen Cabinet Doors

4 upper cabinet doors 1 lower cabinet door and 4 window seat doors.

Build my own kitchen cabinet doors.

Cut your rails and styles to length. Use a circular saw with guide track to make cutting plywood quick and easy. Cut your center panel out of 1 2 plywood. To save money i bought a 4 x 8 foot sheet of mdf board from lowe s for approximately.

Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. Begin assembly of the door. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. If you do not know how to pick out straight boards check out the beginners guide to buying lumber for all the details.

For this particular situation i installed the doors on the cabinets in my shop to ensure a good fit transported them to my sister s garage removed the doors from the hinges painted installed the cabinets then re attached the doors. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. Even with expensive hardwood boards you need to look through the stock and check each board for straightness. Cut center panel to the final height of the cabinet door minus the rails width x2 and the width of the cabinet door minus the stiles width x2 step 1.

I needed to make 9 cabinet doors. The most important part of building your own cabinet doors is to make sure you are working with straight lumber. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction.