Make Your Own Cabinet Doors

The exact measurement of each piece depends on the final size of the cabinet door and the final method of building your cabinet doors.

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. To save money i bought a 4 x 8 foot sheet of mdf board from lowe s for approximately 37 00. I typically use 1 3 boards for mine so they are 2 1 2 wide. Simply sand and stain or paint your shaker cabinet door add some awesome cabinet handles and hinges and you are good to go.

Begin assembly of the door. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. Cost per door is around 20 you can get about 6 center panels from each sheet of plywood. 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.

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. So i decided to make my own diy cabinet doors this time. But the last order i placed took about six weeks to get here and i didn t want to wait that long.

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. It took about 15 minutes to make each door not including the time it took for the glue to dry. Ordinarily this will be the width of a table saw blade. 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. 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. 4 upper cabinet doors 1 lower cabinet door and 4 window seat doors. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

Start by ripping two side pieces to the. I needed to make 9 cabinet doors. Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. Then set the table saw blade to cut 3 8 inch deep and 1 2 inch wide cut the same 2 boards while they are laying flat.

You can pick any width you want for your cabinet door rails and stiles. 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. To make trim for one cabinet door.