A slab cabinet door is usually preferred in contemporary designs and is a smooth flat slab with no contours panels or accents.
Changing cabinet doors to shaker style.
Here s how to do it.
Shaker style is a throwback to a simple design.
Except shipping killed the deal.
The new shaker style cabinet doors previously double raised panel doors.
I will be sharing with you my process for painting kitchen cabinets and doors tomorrow.
Shaker style cabinets supplies.
About 15 each plus the cost of hinges.
Then i looked at just buying new cabinet doors and hinges.
This tutorial will be for how i actually transformed the doors into shaker style cabinets.
1 or 2 sheets of 4 8 1 4 plywood ripped down into 2 5 strips miter saw nail gun orbital sander detail sander.
Remove all the hardware from the cabinet doors.
I found a few sites that made custom doors for a decent price.
With a table saw cut a sheet of 1 4 inch thick plywood into 2 1 4 inch wide strips along the length.
The process for ordering your cabinet doors online is simple.
Accent doors are generally just for decoration and not functionality and are not used as the design style for all the cabinets in the kitchen.
Do you love the look of the classic shaker style cabinet doors.
It is usually also done on the cabinet doors.
Buying new shaker style doors.
Just measure your pre existing cabinet doors and enter the dimensions on the website.
It s classic and fits almost any style of home.
It consists of a type of frame around the side of a flat cabinet to give it depth.
You can see that the doors don t match perfectly with the ones in the kitchen but they re pretty close.
A step by step tutorial on how to update kitchen cabinets without replacing them by adding mdf trim to the door to create a diy shaker style cabinet.
That worked out to be 225.
Sand the doors lightly to remove any dirt and gloss from the old finish.
I ordered shaker doors in maple.
Not bad at all.
These are actually new cabinets.