Making Your Own Shaker Cabinet Doors

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

Making your own shaker cabinet doors.

Diy shaker cabinet doors is a project that requires some initial planning. Cost per door is around 20 you can get about 6 center panels from each sheet of plywood. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. I have been making a lot of cabinet doors recently and in this video i show you my method for how to make shaker cabinet doors.

Sizing the cabinet doors. Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work. Once you have your panel cut make kreg jig pilot holes following ana s directions. I made two on the short ends and three on the long sides.

Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. I finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option. However you could make the grooves and tenons using a router table just as easily. Shaker style doors add a simple and clean look to your cabinets and add a level of true craftsmanship to your cabinet project.

Other than the hinges there is no metal just wood and glue. A kreg jig makes these shaker style cabinet doors possible without having a router. Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue. Sand the front of the door to remove old lacquer dirt or paint.

Although you can create the grooves for tenons using a router saw as well. Stiles will run the entire height of the cabinet door and rails run between the length of the stiles. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. For this article i m going to show you how to build shaker style cabinet doors using a table saw.

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. You need some space to work preferably in the garage or the yard. I prefer to make mine using a. It took about 15 minutes to make each door not including the time it took for the glue to dry.

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. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. How to build shaker style kitchen cabinet doors on a budget.