Making Shaker Kitchen Doors

While there are many options for door making the standard is frame and panel doors.

Making shaker kitchen doors. A kreg jig makes these shaker style cabinet doors possible without having a router. But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built. 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. The stiles of the shaker cabinet door the pieces that make the frame are usually 2 wide and 3 4 to 1 thick.

Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. I made two on the short ends and three on the long sides. Once you have your panel cut make kreg jig pilot holes following ana s directions.

I finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option. To build frame. Shaker doors are some of the simplest to build. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel.

I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel. An 8 foot piece of 1 x 2 red oak strips is around 10. 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. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

Make sure you have the kreg jig to the right setting. 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. These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming.

For the panel the center of the cabinet door you will use 1 4 red oak plywood. For this article i m going to show you how to build shaker style cabinet doors using a table saw. The simplest form of the frame and panel door is the shaker style door known for its no frills look clean and simple. And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend.

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