Building Face Frame Cabinets With Inset Doors

I set a shim at the bottom of the door.

Building face frame cabinets with inset doors.

Now mount the doors on your cabinet. Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in. Achieving a good inset door fit with consistent gaps is a hallmark of good craftsmanship. And this is an area where it s a real advantage to complete the face frame first then fit the doors and drawers before assembling the frame and cabinet.

I am also careful to make the carcasses square as i build the boxes so as not to throw the face frames out of square with an out of square cabinet carcass. That are cut exactly all the way around they look better to me. Pocket hole screws on the inside of cabinet. They had to be good for face frame cabinets.

I bought a jig over at rockler and that made things easier. Most cabinet doors today are overlay. Inset cabinetry features doors and drawers that fit inside of the cabinet face frame openings. The finished gap i use is 3 32 per door edge.

It s fast and secure. What are the advantages of inset cabinetry. 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. This really makes them pop and makes it clear even at a glance that these are no ordinary cabinets.

The hard part may be convincing yourself that you can do it but it. Build the face frame so that the bottom rail rails are horizontal boards and stiles are vertical boards projects 1 16 in. If your cabinet sides are not visible and you used the wood screw or pocket hole method to build your cabinet you can use pocket hole screws to attach your face frame. Learn about 4 types of hinge installation for face frame cabinets.

Apply some wood glue and drive your screws into the pocket hole. Knowing the hinges i was going to use the first task was to drill the holes on the frames to mount them. If you put the door and. The way i do that is to make a door that fits the opening exactly the same size.

They don t fit inside of an opening. On the outside edge. Soft closed and three way adjustability. This type of cabinet construction gives a full view of the cabinet frame with only minimal spacing or gaps between the cabinet components.

Begin by drilling 1 3 8 holes 1 2 deep with a forstner bit below. I like doors that are set right inside the cabinet like that. Good for inset doors. This makes room for adjustments when installing them next to one another.

Above the bottom shelf of the cabinet. Thanks to their adjustability european style hinges make mounting doors as easy as assembling them.