Building Face Frame Cabinets With Inset Doors

I like doors that are set right inside the cabinet like that.

Building face frame cabinets with inset doors.

They don t fit inside of an opening. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. How to build and attach a cabinet faceframe build faceframe. The hard part may be convincing yourself that you can do it but it.

If you put the door and. Most cabinet doors today are overlay. Above the bottom shelf of the cabinet. The finished gap i use is 3 32 per door edge.

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. This makes room for adjustments when installing them next to one another. Knowing the hinges i was going to use the first task was to drill the holes on the frames to mount them. 35 mm overlay soft close face frame cabinet hinges with installation screws 25 pairs.

To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in. Get help with the hinges. The other good points with the hinges i chose. 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.

They had to be good for face frame cabinets. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. If staining your piece you want to match your face frame wood as closely as possible to your carcass lumber. Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in.

Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. Face frames cover plywood edges. You also have to hang them. 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 way i do that is to make a door that fits the opening exactly the same size. On the outside edge. Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.

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. Achieving a good inset door fit with consistent gaps is a hallmark of good craftsmanship. I generally always build my face frames out of 1 2 poplar when painting.

Soft closed and three way adjustability. Good for inset doors. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible.