How To Make Easy Shaker Cabinet Doors
I m very pleased with the way these shaker style cabinet doors turned out.
How to make easy shaker cabinet doors. I ended up redoing the whole cabinets and converting the top half into open shelving with fake shiplap. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. What you need is oak strips plywood wood glue and a table saw and when you realize that this is a cheap kitchen renovation project you may give it some consideration. 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. When we bought our house ten years ago the cabinets were flat front partial overlay icky brown laminate cabinets. This method is the easiest way to make a set of shaker style cabinet doors. Flat kitchen cabinet doors can be easily turned into eye catching shaker style cabinets in a weekend.
Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel. They are simple in appearance and simple to make with minimal woodworking equipment. The steps in making shaker cabinet doors are the same whether using a basic table saw or modern moulders and computerized assembly equipment.
But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built. Diy shaker cabinet doors are relatively easy to make. By building your own shaker style doors you could actually update your entire kitchen by simply removing the old dated cabinet doors and replacing them with these. Diy shaker cabinet doors plan.
These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming. And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. Cabinet makers would probably scoff at this tutorial but i needed a set of easy no table saw required cabinet doors and this method is e z.
Shaker cabinet doors are among the most popular cabinet door designs precisely because they are simple.