Making Shaker Doors

Making shaker style doors from your existing doors isn t a difficult process but it will take you some time and sweat equity.

Making shaker doors.

Red oak is strong and can easily be stained or painted to your desired color. I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel. Shaker doors are some of the simplest to build. Below are all the links to the kitchen series.

Here we show a quick version of the process invo. How to inset the doors into a face frame for a high end look if you ve been reading this blog for a while then you ve probably seen me write about building shaker cabinet doors before. I ve built them for both my large built in cabinet the tv stand and they were the same style doors i built for our first home. But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built.

It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. They are simple in appearance and simple to make with minimal woodworking equipment. Here s a classic way to put together a strong good looking door without making any unsightly holes. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

The simplest form of the frame and panel door is the shaker style door known for its no frills look clean and simple. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend. My shaker style cabinet doors needed to be 13 5 inches wide by 39 5 inches tall.

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. While there are many options for door making the standard is frame and panel doors. Check out our website for more info. Shaker cabinet doors are among the most popular cabinet door designs precisely because they are simple.

As you can see i did a ton of work but it was all worth the effort. The stiles of the shaker cabinet door the pieces that make the frame are usually 2 wide and 3 4 to 1 thick. Due to the ease of finding i usually opt for red oak. Since the outside boards will be 1x3s actually 75x 2 5 i subtracted 5 inches from the width and height to get the measurement needed for my inside panel 8 5 x 34 5.

But the payoff is huge.