Making Shaker Cabinet Doors With A Router

How to inset the doors into a face frame for a high end look if you ve been reading this blog for a while then you ve probably seen me write about building shaker cabinet doors before.

Making shaker cabinet doors with a router.

To make a true shaker style cabinet you need a router but we don t have a router. Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work. These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming. 1 3 poplar boards recommended for paint.

Plus there are all kinds of profiles you can cut using the same process with different router bits. We ll use a kreg jig instead. Most cabinet doors especially if they are made in a factory have frames tha. Here are four samples that are reminiscent of the shaker design elements.

I really love the look of shaker style cabinet doors and i wanted to lighten up my hallway since it s so dark up there. If you have a router table it may not be as hard as you think to make your own. Learn how to build cabinet door frames using a rail and stile router bit set. Shaker style can mean different things to different people.

Instead of gel staining or chalk painting these ones i decided to just get rid of the oak doors and to make shaker cabinet doors on my own and i didn t even use a router. A while back we took a look at the infinity tongue and groove router bit sets for making mission style and shaker style doors. In this tutorial i am going to show you how i made shaker style drawer fronts using a router table and rail and stile router bits. Cabinet doors can be pricey.

But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built. This design uses typical tools from your work shop without expensive cabinet making router bits. I ve built them for both my large built in cabinet the tv stand and they were the same style doors i built for our first home. Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue.

How to build shaker style kitchen cabinet doors on a budget i finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option.