Making Sliding Cupboard Doors

Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction.

Making sliding cupboard doors.

A great feature to have on a cabinet is a sliding cabinet door. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. Eek i have been swooning over all the sliding doors i have seen and have wanted to incorporate one in our home but we just never had the right spot to have one.

Make sure you check out my demonstration on a technique i used to make the sliding rails. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. A proper sliding door in our home. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in.

This cabinet with sliding doors is made out of mdf and the dimensions are 140cm lenght 40cm width and 80cm hight. In this video i demonstrated how to make a sliding door faceplate. Attach the plywood sheet to the back of the door. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel.

Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. We actually had to go to menards and pick out new wood for this project. Buying a new sliding cabinet door can be very expensive. Frame the sliding cabinet doors cut some 1 4 plywood into strips most of the strips are 2 1 2 cut some additional strips at 5 for the top rails.

For larger cabinets that are in the garage act as a display case or have some other function a sliding cabinet door will help make them more convenient to open. Apply wood glue on all top surfaces of the pieces of both your inner and outer frames. The door was easy to make. Things you ll need tape measure 1 by 2 inch board 96 inches long miter saw router table straight router bit 1 8 inch wider than thickness of cabinet door sanding pad fine grit wood finish paintbrush paste wax cloth rag.

Apply glue with a brush to the inside of the stile where the rail meets it and insert the. I used mdf because i didn t want the cost t. This is another thing that probably didn t really matter but i sized my one of the cabinet doors 1 wider than the other. Sliding cabinet doors with inset track and glides the doors are bypass so either one can be closed on either side of the cabinet.

Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing.