Cabinet Door Frame Construction

Now mount the doors on your cabinet.

Cabinet door frame construction.

Build the cabinets buy the doors. It sometimes requires powerful and expensive wood shaping equipment. These terms are interchangeable and have long been a hallmark of fine cabinetry. In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen.

Learn about 4 types of hinge installation for face frame cabinets. American cabinet manufacturers have traditionally built cabinets using a framed construction. Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. And if you have a bunch to build you ll need a lot of clamps and even more space.

Begin by drilling 1 3 8 holes 1 2 deep with a forstner bit below. Thanks to their adjustability european style hinges make mounting doors as easy as assembling them. Standard overlays offer less reveal on the face frame and are more forgiving with door and drawer alignments. Cabinet doors can make or break the look of your kitchen or bathroom cabinets and the longevity of the cabinets.

This frame resembles a flat picture frame that is attached to the door front giving added dimension to the door front. Unless you have unlimited free time consider building your cabinets but buying your doors. The terms cope and stick frame and panel and stile and rail are synonymous with a certain construction technique for doors. Wood magazine s kevin boyle shows you this foolproof method expla.

Choose which door to make. Using the straightforward process detailed here you can crank out great looking doors for many applications including furniture cabinets and built ins. The door and drawer faces are larger than the openings and overlap the face frame leaving only a small visible reveal. Regardless of whether you are building a stereo cabinet or dresser a kitchen cabinet or bathroom vanity basic cabinet construction is the same.

The front may contain drawers doors or shelves or combinations of the three. Building kitchen cabinet doors is doable but can be tricky. Frames use 3 4 thick stock with 1 4 panels in various materials and veneers a general purpose saw blade will do the job although. Frame and panel doors add class to any project but they don t have to add a lot of assembly time.

In frameless cabinet construction the door and drawer faces are nearly the same size as the cabinet box. I use cope and stick joinery because it makes a good looking and sturdy frame for cabinet doors.