Making Sliding Cupboard Doors

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.

Making sliding cupboard doors.

This cabinet with sliding doors is made out of mdf and the dimensions are 140cm lenght 40cm width and 80cm hight. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. Sliding cabinet doors with inset track and glides the doors are bypass so either one can be closed on either side of the cabinet. Take the height of the door you want and add 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. Apply wood glue on all top surfaces of the pieces of both your inner and outer frames. Begin assembly of the door.

Flip the door so that the newly attached plywood side faces down. I used mdf because i didn t want the cost t. 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.

A proper sliding door in our home. Make sure you check out my demonstration on a technique i used to make the sliding rails. In this video i demonstrated how to make a sliding door faceplate. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel.

It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. This is another thing that probably didn t really matter but i sized my one of the cabinet doors 1 wider than the other. The door was easy to make.

Apply glue with a brush to the inside of the stile where the rail meets it and insert the. We actually had to go to menards and pick out new wood for this project. Attach the plywood sheet to the back of the door. A great feature to have on a cabinet is a sliding cabinet door.

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