Making Shaker Kitchen Doors

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.

Making shaker kitchen doors.

Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work. Luckily this can be easily found at most home improvement stores. An 8 foot piece of 1 x 2 red oak strips is around 10. Make sure you have the kreg jig to the right setting.

Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. To build frame. Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue. Shaker doors are some of the simplest to build.

While there are many options for door making the standard is frame and panel doors. How to build shaker style kitchen cabinet doors on a budget. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in.

But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built. The simplest form of the frame and panel door is the shaker style door known for its no frills look clean and simple. Here we show a quick version of the process invo. However you could make the grooves and tenons using a router table just as easily.

For this article i m going to show you how to build shaker style cabinet doors using a table saw. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming. I finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option.

Once you have your panel cut make kreg jig pilot holes following ana s directions. The stiles of the shaker cabinet door the pieces that make the frame are usually 2 wide and 3 4 to 1 thick. For the panel the center of the cabinet door you will use 1 4 red oak plywood. These are doors with a frame made most of the time from hardwood and a panel made of anything from solid wood to plywood to mdf.

I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel. I made two on the short ends and three on the long sides. Check out our website for more info.