Building Face Frame Cabinets With Inset Doors

Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.

Building face frame cabinets with inset doors.

I like doors that are set right inside the cabinet like that. I generally always build my face frames out of 1 2 poplar when painting. Most cabinet doors today are overlay. Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in.

Build the face frame so that the bottom rail rails are horizontal boards and stiles are vertical boards projects 1 16 in. 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. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Soft closed and three way adjustability.

The other good points with the hinges i chose. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. I bought a jig over at rockler and that made things easier. That are cut exactly all the way around they look better to me.

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. If staining your piece you want to match your face frame wood as closely as possible to your carcass lumber. Knowing the hinges i was going to use the first task was to drill the holes on the frames to mount them. Good for inset doors.

The finished gap i use is 3 32 per door edge. The hard part may be convincing yourself that you can do it but it. 35 mm overlay soft close face frame cabinet hinges with installation screws 25 pairs. Above the bottom shelf of the cabinet.

From each end using the table saw. Achieving a good inset door fit with consistent gaps is a hallmark of good craftsmanship. You also have to hang them. On the outside edge.

If you put the door and. Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. I set a shim at the bottom of the door.

They had to be good for face frame cabinets. How to build and attach a cabinet faceframe build faceframe. This makes room for adjustments when installing them next to one another. Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story.

Face frames cover plywood edges. The way i do that is to make a door that fits the opening exactly the same size. 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.