How To Measure Face Frame Cabinet Doors

We ll start with a single door.

How to measure face frame cabinet doors.

Door hinges are concealed and mounted to the inside of the cabinet wall. Door hinges and drawer glides attach to the face frame. The most common cabinet design has the doors slightly larger than the opening. This makes room for adjustments when installing them next to one another.

Overlay door note the door sits in front of face frame and is larger than cabinet opening. Build the face frame so that the bottom rail rails are horizontal boards and stiles are vertical boards projects 1 16 in. Measure the width and height of the cabinet opening. Simply put a frameless cabinet has no wood frame on the front of the cabinet.

The video shows this process. Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in. This is called the overlay and the most common overlay is. Take the doors and drawer fronts off the cabinet and toss them in the garbage can.

They are gone for good and will not be needed as they will only be a reminder of the 1980 s. Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. Then you add this dimension to the opening size the door or drawer front will cover when it is installed. Above the bottom shelf of the cabinet.

On the outside edge. Next you will measure the openings hole in the face of the cabinet measure from the inside edges of the face frames of the cabinets. Record each opening size on a. The side walls are typically 5 8 or 3 4 thick.

Full overlay is a more modern and popular style. Frameless cabinets are sometimes called full overlay or european cabinets. In the case of our face frame the opening width is 11 inches and the height is 13 inches. Line up the edge of your door with the edge of a piece of tape and apply the tape to the face frame of the cabinet must be on the hinged side of the door.

This style leaves 1 of the front frame exposed around the doors drawers. If you do not have old or existing doors or drawer fronts then you will have to decide how much of the cabinet face frame you want your new doors and drawer fronts to overlap. You can refer to this image or this video for more help understanding the term overlay.