Making Shaker Cabinet Doors With A Router

This design uses typical tools from your work shop without expensive cabinet making router bits.

Making shaker cabinet doors with a router.

How to build shaker style kitchen cabinet doors on a budget i finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option. These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming. Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work. 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.

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. But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built. Cabinet doors can be pricey. Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue.

1 3 poplar boards recommended for paint. 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. Most cabinet doors especially if they are made in a factory have frames tha. 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.

Here are four samples that are reminiscent of the shaker design elements. Build your own new diy cabinet doors with this tutorial. So today we re going to walk you through how to make shaker cabinet doors without a router. Shaker style can mean different things to different people.

Learn how to build cabinet door frames using a rail and stile router bit set. We ll use a kreg jig instead. And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend. To make a true shaker style cabinet you need a router but we don t have 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.