Making Shaker Kitchen Doors

I finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option.

Making shaker kitchen doors.

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. Make sure you have the kreg jig to the right setting. Luckily this can be easily found at most home improvement stores.

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. Once you have your panel cut make kreg jig pilot holes following ana s directions. To build frame. The stiles of the shaker cabinet door the pieces that make the frame are usually 2 wide and 3 4 to 1 thick.

A kreg jig makes these shaker style cabinet doors possible without having a router. 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. The simplest form of the frame and panel door is the shaker style door known for its no frills look clean and simple.

How to build shaker style kitchen cabinet doors on a budget. For the panel the center of the cabinet door you will use 1 4 red oak plywood. However you could make the grooves and tenons using a router table just as easily. 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. I made two on the short ends and three on the long sides. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel.

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. Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue.

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built. An 8 foot piece of 1 x 2 red oak strips is around 10.