Making Shaker Style Cabinet Doors

Shaker style doors are easy to build using basic shop tools like a table saw router and miter saw.

Making shaker style cabinet doors.

Shaker style doors add a simple and clean look to your cabinets and add a level of true craftsmanship to your cabinet project. This is pretty simple. Determine the cabinet size. In this video i go over how to make simple shaker style doors with just a table saw.

Your cabinet opening is 17 x 37 so you would want your shaker cabinet door to be 18 x 38. Most people opt for 1 2 inch. While there are a few different ways that these d. Although you can create the grooves for tenons using a router saw as well.

My shaker style cabinet doors needed to be 13 5 inches wide by 39 5 inches tall. I started off by taking all of the cabinet doors off and measuring them to see how big i needed to make the shaker cabinet doors. This article will cover how to build shaker style cabinet doors with a basic table saw. Since the outside boards will be 1x3s actually 75x 2 5 i subtracted 5 inches from the.

I finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option. All you have to do is measure the opening of the cabinet and then add the desired overlap. I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel. But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built.

Measuring for new shaker style cabinet doors. How to build shaker style kitchen cabinet doors on a budget. Shaker style cabinets supplies. These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming.

1 or 2 sheets of 4 8 1 4 plywood ripped down into 2 5 strips miter saw nail gun orbital sander detail sander. 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. Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue. However with some basic instruction building cabinet doors and drawers isn t that difficult.

This tutorial will be for how i actually transformed the doors into shaker style cabinets. Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work. How to build a shaker cabinet door step 1. I will be sharing with you my process for painting kitchen cabinets and doors tomorrow.

And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend. 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.