Building Cabinet Door Frames

This makes room for adjustments when installing them next to one another.

Building cabinet door frames.

Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. Above the bottom shelf of the cabinet. The facings are cut and installed in the same manner. You ll find this material at most home centers and lumberyards.

Wood magazine s kevin boyle shows you this foolproof method expla. These are just nominal dimensions of course. Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. Apply some wood glue and drive your screws into the pocket hole.

The sample base and wall cabinets shown belowhave these features to make building them as simple as possible. Join the base panels to the bottom. Pocket hole screws on the inside of cabinet. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups.

If your cabinet sides are not visible and you used the wood screw or pocket hole method to build your cabinet you can use pocket hole screws to attach your face frame. Plan to use 1 3 or 1 4 hardwood boards for the door s frame. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. Ordinarily this will be the width of a table saw blade.

Or 3 4 x 3 1 2 in. It s fast and secure. Upper cabinets are constructed in the same basic manner using box or case construction for the sides bottom and a 3 4 inch plywood top. Pilot holes are a good idea here.

Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in. For cabinets with face frames if doing inset doors subtract from both the height and width of your frame opening to get your door size. On the outside edge. In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen.

Face frames cover plywood edges. Build the face frame so that the bottom rail rails are horizontal boards and stiles are vertical boards projects 1 16 in. In this case the sides top and bottom all have 1 4 by 1 4 inch rabbets ripped in their inside edges for the plywood or hardboard back. A flat door panel will usually be made from 25 inch 6 mm plywood the same wood type as the rest of the cabinet.

The actual dimensions will be 3 4 x 2 1 2 in. Then using butt joints screw through the cabinet base and into the edge of the panels.