Make Your Own Cabinet Doors

To save money i bought a 4 x 8 foot sheet of mdf board from lowe s for approximately 37 00.

Make your own cabinet doors.

Simply sand and stain or paint your shaker cabinet door add some awesome cabinet handles and hinges and you are good to go. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. Begin assembly of the door. Make a no fuss case using your tablesaw.

I typically use 1 3 boards for mine so they are 2 1 2 wide. A flat door panel will usually be made from 25 inch 6 mm plywood the same wood type as the rest of the cabinet. 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.

I needed to make 9 cabinet doors. Each door is made up of 2 stiles 2 rails and a center panel. Cost per door is around 20 you can get about 6 center panels from each sheet of plywood. 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.

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. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. So i decided to make my own diy cabinet doors this time. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in.

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. You can pick any width you want for your cabinet door rails and stiles. Ordinarily this will be the width of a table saw blade. 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.

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. To make trim for one cabinet door. 4 upper cabinet doors 1 lower cabinet door and 4 window seat doors. 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. Start by ripping two side pieces to the. 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.