Building Face Frame Cabinets With Inset Doors

From each end using the table saw.

Building face frame cabinets with inset doors.

The other good points with the hinges i chose. 35 mm overlay soft close face frame cabinet hinges with installation screws 25 pairs. I like doors that are set right inside the cabinet like that. You also have to hang them.

I generally always build my face frames out of 1 2 poplar when painting. Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. That are cut exactly all the way around they look better to me. Soft closed and three way adjustability.

They had to be good for face frame cabinets. Most cabinet doors today are overlay. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. On the outside edge.

If you put the door and. Build the face frame so that the bottom rail rails are horizontal boards and stiles are vertical boards projects 1 16 in. I set a shim at the bottom of the door. Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in.

If staining your piece you want to match your face frame wood as closely as possible to your carcass lumber. The way i do that is to make a door that fits the opening exactly the same size. With my cabinets and face frames built in this manner i am able to make my inset doors 1 16 smaller than the opening size. I am also careful to make the carcasses square as i build the boxes so as not to throw the face frames out of square with an out of square cabinet carcass.

The finished gap i use is 3 32 per door edge. To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. And this is an area where it s a real advantage to complete the face frame first then fit the doors and drawers before assembling the frame and cabinet.

The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Good for inset doors. The hard part may be convincing yourself that you can do it but it. They don t fit inside of an opening.

Face frames cover plywood edges. This makes room for adjustments when installing them next to one another. How to build and attach a cabinet faceframe build faceframe. Above the bottom shelf of the cabinet.

Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story. Get help with the hinges. I bought a jig over at rockler and that made things easier.