How To Make Flat Front Cabinet Doors

Adding glass to cabinet doors simply remove the center panel and add a plexiglass window.

How to make flat front cabinet doors.

Make sure all your trim edges and sides are level with the cabinet door to make sure you have no trouble with your doors closing when they are reassembled to the cabinets. However flat panel doors otherwise known as slab cabinet doors are increasing in popularity largely because they lend a modern. Place the assembly flat on the table with the newly cut door bottom against the fence and run the door through the blade. Cut two strips to fit snug between the two vertical strips.

Measure the door and drawer openings on all the cabinets. If the door opening measures 18 by 24 inches your flat face door measurement would. Next adjust the table saw fence to the desired width of the door and trim the door to width. This raised panel design such as is found in shaker style cabinets gives a very traditional look.

Add 1 1 2 inch to all the measurements. Use a raised panel cutter to create a raised panel on one side with a continuous tenon. Then orient the raised panel on the inside of the door hidden from view in order to get my flat panel look or when cutting the rails and stiles to length add 1 to the final inside width of the frame. Measure the distance between the hardwood strips at the top and bottom.

Confessions of a serial diyer. Your cabinet door should now be the desired height. Most cabinet doors still use a form of contoured design in which frames and panels are constructed so that the cabinet faces are dimensional rather than flat. When everything sanded smooth take a vacuum to all the doors and then wiped with a dry cloth to remove all dust.