Making Shaker Kitchen Doors

However you could make the grooves and tenons using a router table just as easily.

Making shaker kitchen doors.

Here we show a quick version of the process invo. For this article i m going to show you how to build shaker style cabinet doors using a table saw. Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue. 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.

Luckily this can be easily found at most home improvement stores. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming. Shaker doors are some of the simplest to build.

I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel. But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built. Check out our website for more info. For the panel the center of the cabinet door you will use 1 4 red oak plywood.

I made two on the short ends and three on the long sides. I finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option. To build frame. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

An 8 foot piece of 1 x 2 red oak strips is around 10. The stiles of the shaker cabinet door the pieces that make the frame are usually 2 wide and 3 4 to 1 thick. How to build shaker style kitchen cabinet doors on a budget. Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work.

Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. Once you have your panel cut make kreg jig pilot holes following ana s directions. And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend. A kreg jig makes these shaker style cabinet doors possible without having a router.

Make sure you have the kreg jig to the right setting. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. The simplest form of the frame and panel door is the shaker style door known for its no frills look clean and simple.