Make Your Own Cupboard Doors

To save money i bought a 4 x 8 foot sheet of mdf board from lowe s for approximately 37 00.

Make your own cupboard doors.

Replacing cabinet doors will give your room an instant facelift. If you are making multiple cabinet doors create an assembly line. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. Start by ripping two side pieces to the.

Now you just need to repeat to build cabinet doors for the rest of your cabinets. Diy cabinet doors are a great way to update an old space. Choose which door to make. Whether you are remodeling a kitchen bathroom laundry room or any room with built in cabinets you can build your own cabinet doors to make your space look like new again.

Make a no fuss case using your tablesaw. 4 upper cabinet doors 1 lower cabinet door and 4 window seat doors. We had the employees at lowe s cut the mdf board into 9 pieces using the measurements we gave them for each cabinet window seat door. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel.

For a base cabinet less than 4 wide you can cut all the parts except the back and toekick from one 3 4 4 8 sheet of plywood or mdf. Plywood thicknesses vary though so make certain your material thickness measures a true 3 4 or adjust your part dimensions to achieve the final cabinet width. It took me less than 2 hours to build these 4 cabinet doors and sand them so they were ready to paint. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

If you want to finish off the inside of the cabinet doors fill the pocket holes with plugs. I needed to make 9 cabinet doors. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in.