Making Your Own Shaker Cabinet Doors

Once you have your panel cut make kreg jig pilot holes following ana s directions.

Making your own shaker cabinet doors. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. I made two on the short ends and three on the long sides. How to build shaker style kitchen cabinet doors on a budget. Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue.

Diy shaker cabinet doors is a project that requires some initial planning. Although you can create the grooves for tenons using a router saw as well. I finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

It took about 15 minutes to make each door not including the time it took for the glue to dry. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. Sizing the cabinet doors. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel.

You need to remove the cabinet doors and the hinges from all the doors. For this article i m going to show you how to build shaker style cabinet doors using a table saw. A kreg jig makes these shaker style cabinet doors possible without having a router. Shaker style doors add a simple and clean look to your cabinets and add a level of true craftsmanship to your cabinet project.

Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work. I prefer to make mine using a. Cost per door is around 20 you can get about 6 center panels from each sheet of plywood. Making simple frame and panel cabinet doors is fairly easy and the thing i like best is you can do this either on the table saw or a router table.

And if you are starting with wood that is already surfaced and squared then you can build the entire door with just a table saw and miter saw. However you could make the grooves and tenons using a router table just as easily. Stiles will run the entire height of the cabinet door and rails run between the length of the stiles. Simply sand and stain or paint your shaker cabinet door add some awesome cabinet handles and hinges and you are good to go.

Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. Sand the front of the door to remove old lacquer dirt or paint. To create the panel and frame cabinet doors you are going to need to create two rails two stiles and a single panel for each door. Other than the hinges there is no metal just wood and glue.