Making Shaker Cabinet Doors With A Router

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.

Making shaker cabinet doors with a router.

We ll use a kreg jig instead. 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. Learn how to build cabinet door frames using a rail and stile router bit set. Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue.

Shaker style can mean different things to different people. These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming. 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. Build your own new diy cabinet doors with this tutorial.

How to build shaker style kitchen cabinet doors on a budget i finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option. Plus there are all kinds of profiles you can cut using the same process with different router bits. Cabinet doors can be pricey. To make a true shaker style cabinet you need a router but we don t have 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. 1 3 poplar boards recommended for paint. Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work. If you have a router table it may not be as hard as you think to make your own.

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. Here are four samples that are reminiscent of the shaker design elements. So today we re going to walk you through how to make shaker cabinet doors without a router. And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend.

Most cabinet doors especially if they are made in a factory have frames tha.