Making Shaker Cabinet Doors With A Router

If you have a router table it may not be as hard as you think to make your own.

Making shaker cabinet doors with a router. Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work. A while back we took a look at the infinity tongue and groove router bit sets for making mission style and shaker style doors. Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue. 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. We ll use a kreg jig instead. This design uses typical tools from your work shop without expensive cabinet making router bits. 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.

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

1 3 poplar boards recommended for paint. Here are four samples that are reminiscent of the shaker design elements. 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. And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend.

Plus there are all kinds of profiles you can cut using the same process with different router bits. 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. Build your own new diy cabinet doors with this tutorial. 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.

These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming.