Make Your Own Slab Cabinet Doors

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Make your own slab cabinet doors.

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. This raised panel design such as is found in shaker style cabinets gives a very traditional look. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. Unless you want uncomplicated slab doors the job is probably too painstaking to do onsite with a circular saw even for a pro.

Doors are either 1 3 8 thick generally interior or 1 3 4 thick generally exterior. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. Since each of the boards likely came from the same original piece of stock the grain patterns for each board should be quite similar. Assuming the grain runs lengthwise the doors are 45cm wide you could rip a 9 inch wide strip from the slab resaw 4 veneers from the strip and make your own plywood by using the 4 veneers book matched on either side of a baltic birch plywood core or a solid wood panel core like krenov.

To make a simple slab door start by measuring the dimensions for your door. If you want a woodgrain look use medium density fiberboard on a painted or covered surface. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. 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.

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. 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. Then cut the door out of a sheet of plywood or your chosen material with a circular or table saw. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy.

This is one such cabinet door for which lighting and color scheme will make all the difference and give your kitchen a life of its own. The door i wanted to build had to be 1 3 8 thick. I used 5mm underlayment for the front and back which is slightly less than 1 4 thick.