Convert Cabinet Doors To Shaker Style

Remove all the hardware from the cabinet doors.

Convert cabinet doors to shaker style.

Do you love the look of the classic shaker style cabinet doors. Shaker style is a throwback to a simple design. These are actually new cabinets. Buying new shaker style doors.

You can see that the doors don t match perfectly with the ones in the kitchen but they re pretty close. This tutorial will be for how i actually transformed the doors into shaker style cabinets. Except shipping killed the deal. It is usually also done on the cabinet doors.

Here s how to do it. I didn t want to spend hundre. Also known as an inset panel door they have a perimeter of hardwood glued to the door. My shaker style cabinet doors needed to be 13 5 inches wide by 39 5 inches tall.

It consists of a type of frame around the side of a flat cabinet to give it depth. The new shaker style cabinet doors previously double raised panel doors. Since the outside boards will be 1x3s actually 75x 2 5 i subtracted 5 inches from the width and height to get the measurement needed for my inside panel 8 5 x 34 5. In this video i go over how to make simple shaker style doors with just a table saw.

With a table saw cut a sheet of 1 4 inch thick plywood into 2 1 4 inch wide strips along the length. Typical shaker style uses 3 4 inch for the overlay but if you have existing flat front doors you can. Adding plywood trim is an economical way to convert plain or outdated cabinets to shaker style. Shaker style cabinets supplies.

I will be sharing with you my process for painting kitchen cabinets and doors tomorrow. While there are a few different ways that these d. Then i looked at just buying new cabinet doors and hinges. Sand the doors lightly to remove any dirt and gloss from the old finish.

That worked out to be 225. 1 or 2 sheets of 4 8 1 4 plywood ripped down into 2 5 strips miter saw nail gun orbital sander detail sander. I found a few sites that made custom doors for a decent price. A step by step tutorial on how to update kitchen cabinets without replacing them by adding mdf trim to the door to create a diy shaker style cabinet.

About 15 each plus the cost of hinges.