Making Shaker Kitchen Doors

Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work.

Making shaker kitchen doors.

Make sure you have the kreg jig to the right setting. While there are many options for door making the standard is frame and panel doors. A kreg jig makes these shaker style cabinet doors possible without having a router. Making simple frame and panel cabinet doors is fairly easy and the thing i like best is you can do this either on the table saw or a router table.

How to build shaker style kitchen cabinet doors on a budget. 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. The simplest form of the frame and panel door is the shaker style door known for its no frills look clean and simple.

To build frame. I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel. I finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option. However you could make the grooves and tenons using a router table just as easily.

For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. An 8 foot piece of 1 x 2 red oak strips is around 10. These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming.

But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built. For the panel the center of the cabinet door you will use 1 4 red oak plywood. And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend. 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.

Check out our website for more info. Here we show a quick version of the process invo. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. Luckily this can be easily found at most home improvement stores.

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. Once you have your panel cut make kreg jig pilot holes following ana s directions. Shaker doors are some of the simplest to build.