How To Build A Shaker Cabinet Door

I ended up redoing the whole cabinets and converting the top half into open shelving with fake shiplap.

How to build a shaker cabinet door.

Measuring for new shaker style cabinet doors. The stiles run the total height of the cabinet door while the rails run between the stiles. For this article i m going to show you how to build shaker style cabinet doors using a table saw. The little tool i m using is a center punch super handy tool bore a hole to the recommended depth usually 1 2 place the cup into the hole and mark the location of the screw holes.

Pre drill the screw holes and then screw the hinges to the door. Most people opt for 1 2 inch. How to build a shaker cabinet door step 1. This is pretty simple.

To build frame and panel cabinet doors you ll need to build two stiles two rails and one panel per door. Diy shaker cabinet doors plan. However you could make the grooves and tenons using a router table just as easily. All you have to do is measure the opening of the cabinet and then add the desired overlap.

Mark the center of the location where the cups will go.