Building Face Frame Cabinets With Inset Doors

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.

Building face frame cabinets with inset doors.

Learn about 4 types of hinge installation for face frame cabinets. Now mount the doors on your cabinet. Achieving a good inset door fit with consistent gaps is a hallmark of good craftsmanship. They had to be good for face frame cabinets.

This type of cabinet construction gives a full view of the cabinet frame with only minimal spacing or gaps between the cabinet components. The other good points with the hinges i chose. Good for inset doors. I set a shim at the bottom of the door.

I like doors that are set right inside the cabinet like that. Inset cabinetry features doors and drawers that fit inside of the cabinet face frame openings. This makes room for adjustments when installing them next to one another. They don t fit inside of an opening.

What are the advantages of inset cabinetry. If you put the door and. 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. When you re going for inset doors white is a great choice and our snow white inset cabinets are perfect for the style.

The way i do that is to make a door that fits the opening exactly the same size. Begin by drilling 1 3 8 holes 1 2 deep with a forstner bit below. That are cut exactly all the way around they look better to me. I bought a jig over at rockler and that made things easier.

Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in. The finished gap i use is 3 32 per door edge. 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. On the outside edge.

It s fast and secure. Thanks to their adjustability european style hinges make mounting doors as easy as assembling them. This really makes them pop and makes it clear even at a glance that these are no ordinary cabinets. Build the face frame so that the bottom rail rails are horizontal boards and stiles are vertical boards projects 1 16 in.

The hard part may be convincing yourself that you can do it but it. Knowing the hinges i was going to use the first task was to drill the holes on the frames to mount them. Apply some wood glue and drive your screws into the pocket hole. 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.

Pocket hole screws on the inside of cabinet. The contrast between the white surfaces and the darker shadows along the seams are emphasized by shaker styling.