Making Inset Cabinet Doors

Wood magazine s jeff mertz takes you through the steps to create perfectly spaced inset drawer.

Making inset cabinet doors.

Good for inset doors. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. With inset cabinets you can personalize the design with either beaded or non beaded inserts to create your own look and complement your home s décor. There are thousands of hinges out there.

Inset cabinetry offers clean lines flush inset doors and features that can change the look of a standard cabinet with a full overlay door. Make a pencil mark on the door where the back edge of the lock stile hits the opening at both the door top and bottom. If the cabinet doors pop out from the frame it is likely that you have an overlay cabinet. After the hinges are set the final gap between the lock stile and the cabinet can be finished.

I had to take a crash course on this matter even before i bought the wooden material. If the gap is small a square edge on the back stile will prevent the door from closing. Opposite to inset cabinets overlay cabinets will layer the cabinet doors on top of the frames with just a little bit of the frame showing through. The finished gap i use is 3 32 per door edge.

Learn how to make and install inset cabinet doors and drawers. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. My key points for choosing the hinges i chose were these. Today we are going to go through how we installed the doors and drawers which is step five in the base cabinet post.

It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. The amount of overlay can vary to determine the size of the hinges or the overall style of the cabinet. One of the aspects of our built ins that we just love are the fact that we were able to install inset cabinet doors. With my cabinets and face frames built in this manner i am able to make my inset doors 1 16 smaller than the opening size.

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. Connect these two marks with a line. Of course i glue up my doors with the same attention to squareness. We feel that this adds to the character of the cabinets and makes it look like the cabinets are original.