Building Plywood Cabinet Doors

Face frames cover plywood edges.

Building plywood cabinet doors.

Columbia s appalachian traditions line answers the need for the edge glued lumber or plank matched look perfectly. Laminate is typically applied to the door panel although it is also possible to paint it or in the case of finer cabinet grade plywood to stain and varnish it. X research source cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. From each end using the table saw.

Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. Probably the most inexpensive and versatile style of a cabinet door is the slab. While slab style cabinet doors can be built from plywood or melamine with the edges banded it is relatively simple to build slab doors from solid wood. You also have to hang them.

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. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. This raised panel design such as is found in shaker style cabinets gives a very traditional look. 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.

To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in. Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story. A flat door panel will usually be made from 25 inch 6 mm plywood the same wood type as the rest of the cabinet. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible.

For cabinet doors a plywood face can give you a finished look regardless of the type of plywood you ve chosen to use for the box construction. But i wanted a really nice natural color for the bottom doors so i used the hickory 2 x4 purebond plywood panels for the doors on the base cabinets and pantry. Simple frameless doors can be made by simply cutting sanded or cabinet grade plywood to the required dimension. They can be finished with paint stain followed by polyurethane or any other finish you deem appropriate.

Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.