Making Sliding Cupboard Doors

Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing.

Making sliding cupboard doors.

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

It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. 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. In this video i demonstrated how to make a sliding door faceplate. This cabinet with sliding doors is made out of mdf and the dimensions are 140cm lenght 40cm width and 80cm hight.

Flip the door so that the newly attached plywood side faces down. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. Place the plywood on top of the frame apply wood glue and secure it with screws once it s aligned. Attach the plywood sheet to the back of the door.

The door was easy to make. Apply wood glue on all top surfaces of the pieces of both your inner and outer frames. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. A proper sliding door in our home.

A great feature to have on a cabinet is a sliding cabinet door. Buying a new sliding cabinet door can be very expensive. We actually had to go to menards and pick out new wood for this project. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated.

I used mdf because i didn t want the cost t. Make sure you check out my demonstration on a technique i used to make the sliding rails. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. Sliding cabinet doors with inset track and glides the doors are bypass so either one can be closed on either side of the cabinet.

Begin assembly of the door.