Building Face Frame Cabinets With Inset Doors

Most cabinet doors today are overlay.

Building face frame cabinets with inset doors.

This really makes them pop and makes it clear even at a glance that these are no ordinary cabinets. Learn about 4 types of hinge installation for face frame cabinets. When you re going for inset doors white is a great choice and our snow white inset cabinets are perfect for the style. I bought a jig over at rockler and that made things easier.

Above the bottom shelf of the cabinet. This type of cabinet construction gives a full view of the cabinet frame with only minimal spacing or gaps between the cabinet components. 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. They don t fit inside of an opening.

Achieving a good inset door fit with consistent gaps is a hallmark of good craftsmanship. 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. Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in. If you put the door and.

The finished gap i use is 3 32 per door edge. The way i do that is to make a door that fits the opening exactly the same size. The contrast between the white surfaces and the darker shadows along the seams are emphasized by shaker styling. Inset cabinetry features doors and drawers that fit inside of the cabinet face frame openings.

That are cut exactly all the way around they look better to me. Knowing the hinges i was going to use the first task was to drill the holes on the frames to mount them. Good for inset doors. The other good points with the hinges i chose.

This makes room for adjustments when installing them next to one another. Pocket hole screws on the inside of cabinet. Thanks to their adjustability european style hinges make mounting doors as easy as assembling them. They had to be good for face frame cabinets.

I like doors that are set right inside the cabinet like that. Apply some wood glue and drive your screws into the pocket hole. On the outside edge. I set a shim at the bottom of the door.

Build the face frame so that the bottom rail rails are horizontal boards and stiles are vertical boards projects 1 16 in. What are the advantages of inset cabinetry. 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. The hard part may be convincing yourself that you can do it but it.

It s fast and secure. 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.