Building Custom Cabinet Doors

After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look.

Building custom cabinet doors.

Cabinet doors since 1978 barker has been building high end custom kitchen and bathroom cabinet doors that have withstood the test of time. At 24 deep standard base cabinets allow you to bend over and reach in to retrieve anything at the back. Even with expensive hardwood boards you need to look through the stock and check each board for straightness. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in.

Finally screw the hinges and handle onto the door and install it to the cabinet. In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen. Once you ve cut the door out soften its sides with a router to get rid of any rough edges. Utilizing the finest hardwoods the most talented craftsmen the highest caliber of woodworking equipment and finishing it off with an artist s touch cabinet refacing has never been this easy.

The most important part of building your own cabinet doors is to make sure you are working with straight lumber. These smaller panels are a lot easier to handle than full sheets and since most of my cabinets were built 24 wide i did that on purpose i only had to cut the door panels down in one direction since the 2. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated.

Also the wider the door the more clearance you ll need in front of the cabinet. Standard wall cabinets measure 12 deep. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel.

Make cabinets as wide as you like but remember that the wider the doors the greater the tendency to rack and warp.