Make Your Own Slab Cabinet Doors

Since each of the boards likely came from the same original piece of stock the grain patterns for each board should be quite similar.

Make your own slab cabinet doors.

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. Before beginning to make the tongue and groove joints on your slab style cabinet doors it is a good idea to lay out all the boards you are making according to their grain patterns. Today i will share how to build an interior slab door that is inexpensive and easy to make. You may be satisfied with less than top drawer results if you re building the doors yourself but if you re paying to have them made you want only the best and it takes a shop with a cabinet grade tools to achieve that.

For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. To make a simple slab door start by measuring the dimensions for your door. Then cut the door out of a sheet of plywood or your chosen material with a circular or table saw. Unless you want uncomplicated slab doors the job is probably too painstaking to do onsite with a circular saw even for a pro.

If you want a woodgrain look use medium density fiberboard on a painted or covered surface. Most cabinet doors still use a form of contoured design in which frames and panels are constructed so that the cabinet faces are dimensional rather than flat. However flat panel doors otherwise known as slab cabinet doors are increasing in popularity largely because they lend a modern. The door i wanted to build had to be 1 3 8 thick.

Our team offers professional priming for only 8 00 so that when you receive your doors. This raised panel design such as is found in shaker style cabinets gives a very traditional look. I used 5mm underlayment for the front and back which is slightly less than 1 4 thick. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy.

Doors are either 1 3 8 thick generally interior or 1 3 4 thick generally exterior. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing.