DIY Shaker Style Cabinets from Flat Doors. DISCLAIMER: I am a DIYer, not a professional carpenter. This is a budget friendly solution I found to transform my kitchen without breaking the bank.  Ashley is a stay at home mom to three beautiful children. She and her husband recently settled in the Midwest after spending the beginning of their marriage in Texas (what a change!). Together they are raising their children, and turning their house into a home one project at a time. Update your kitchen with this simple but stylish DIY shaker cabinet door. This easy tutorial walks you through the whole process.  When selecting cabinet doors there are a couple of options in regards to wood. Due to the ease of finding, I usually opt for red oak. Red oak is strong and can easily be stained or painted to your desired color. The stiles of the shaker cabinet door (the pieces that make the frame) are usually 2″ wide and 3/4″ to 1″ thick. Luckily this can be easily found at most home improvement stores. An 8 foot piece of 1″ x 2″ red oak strips is around $ For the panel (the center of the cabinet door), you will use 1/4″ red oak plywood. Again, these are easily found at most home improvement stores. A 4′ x. Step 1. Measure the size of kitchen cabinet. First step to do is to determine the cabinet openings and also determine the overlay that you want. The standard overlay for the cabinet door is usually ½” on each side. So, if the cabinet opening is 16” x 37”, then the cabinet door should be 17” x 38”. As shown in the picture, grey color is the overlay for the cabinet door. Step 2. If you want to find materials easily, you can always go for red oak as it is strong and is easily painted or stained to your preferred color. The cabinet door stiles are 2” width and ¾” to 1” thickness. The stiles are th. Can you please respond to the many questions about how to handle the rounded cabinet door edges? If it is, it will not fit right. When I first began working with clamps I would tend to clamp one side tighter than the other — resulting in an uneven finish on the final product. Thank you so much! Sand the corners and apply a shkaer, paint, sshaker or stain in the color that you have chosen to match the interior of the kitchen. I chose not to caulk the inside and outside edges of the trim. Diy shaker kitchen cabinet doors 03 Right chevron.

Again, caulk if you want, but the primer and paint did a great job of hiding it for me. I will be sharing how I painted my Shaker Style cabinets and doors tomorrow, so be sure to stop back by for my tips on that! I went with oak because that is what my cabinets are. I personally prefer something with less of a grain. It will depend on your cabinets for what you should by. To be honest, I measured as best I could, but I did have to do a lot of extra cutting.

I always leaned to the longer side so I could just trim it off if need be. Trying to find an exact measurement on rounded corners is a little hard. I did one door at a time. There was no way to set up an assembly line without making tons of errors. I wish I could tell you. I planned on building all the doors in one weekend, but come to find out… kids are very good at distracting you and needing your attention.

I also did lots of stuff in different phases so I could take pictures for you guys. I did all my lower cabinets first and painted them before building my top ones. It is definitely time consuming…. I would plan for several FULL days of working. If you can work from morning til night and you are familiar with the process of building, you could probably do it in one day depending on the size of your kitchen.

You can read all about my countertops here. Still have questions? Leave them below and I will do my best to answer any questions you might have. How to Paint Kitchen Cabinets. How to Alter Kitchen Cabinets. DIY Kitchen Island. To see the full kitchen reveal, click here. Want to see our kitchen progress? You can check out our f ull journey here! Ashley is a stay at home mom to three beautiful children.

She and her husband recently settled in the Midwest after spending the beginning of their marriage in Texas what a change! Together they are raising their children, and turning their house into a home one project at a time. Ashley enjoys decorating and crafting, but her true passion lies in redoing old furniture and making things look old. I did this in my kitchen!!

Let me know if you want to see the before and afters! I shared your site with my friends! I love your kitchen Ashley!! Shaker style is my favorite!!! My cabinets are nice, but not my favorite. Thanks Crystal! I think next time I just want to install new ones, lol. It took me so long since I had to work in 30 minute increments with my kiddos calling me name all the time ;.

Love your kitchen transformation! I have been planning on doing this same project the year but have not had time to complete it. Thanks for the great tutorial, makes me want to start the project right now! I cannot even believe where these cabinets started! You are a magician. Awesome tutorial!

What a great transformation! Looks so updated and fresh now! Hi there! Love the transformation — just curious, did you just do the doors or did you do something with the insides of the cabinets as well? What do they look like when they are opened? Thanks so much Chloe! I painted the bases and the insides of the cabinets as well, so when they are opened everything is white… well except for my mess of dishes ; Have a great night!

I have similar cabinets that I want to change up and your tutorial is exactly what I was looking for. I had a question about the drawers — did you trim them out or leave them flat? Most of my bottom cabinetry is drawers so I was trying to decide what to do. Hi Kylie! Sorry for the late response. If I had larger drawers I probably would have trimmed them out as well. Let me know if you have any other questions! Ashley, your tutorial is amazing!

I have the same type cabinets with the rounded edges. You mentioned that in the tutorial but I was wondering if you filled in the gap between the door and the new trim? Thanks for the inspiration to redo my own :.

I am interested in this as well. Have the rounded edge cabinet and would LOVE to do this. Has anybody tried? I realize this was posted quite a long time ago and the OP, followers or blogger may not see this, but I am interested in the answer to this question or to seeing pictures of what the inside of that external edge looks like when you open the door.

Would wood filler work for that? I know you said yours are slightly rounded, mine are noticeably rounded. I have these exact same doors and have been playing around with the idea of doing this exact same process with them for years. I was worried that they would not look good enough. Now I am totally inspired and have decided to go ahead with it.

Thank you so much for all your wonderful information. I know I will be using your blog a ton to help me with this project. Thanks so much!!! These are stunning and will certainly be part of the project. Can u tell me if you primed and painted the inside of your boxes? Is that something you regret either way?

The inside of ours was not pretty at all. Hope that helps! Thanks for stopping by! About how much did this cost you? I know our kitchens are not the same size or can probably be compared but would love some idea for our tiny kitchen!

We are currently doing this exact tutorial on our cabinets. We are sanding everything as smooth as we can get but the nature of the plywood is to peel so it has me worried! Wondering how they held up over the years : thanks! And thanks for making this tutorial for us to follow!

It will save a fortune and many hours of filling and sanding as well. Oh yeah. Another thing. Buy your handles from Amazon. Same is true of self-closing stainless hinges. I love this! We are in the process of buying a home built in and we are redoing the kitchen. Same flat doors with rounded edges except ours look like they have about 10 coats of paint on them! So I was searching on how to change them and came across this blog!

I will be trying this for sure! FYI, in our home we are presently renting, I updated our kitchen with some inexpensive changes. I found these sites and will always go here first for all my hardware, knobs and pulls. I get them from either 99 cent knobs or knob deals. Well worth it! Thanks for posting this! Love your kitchen redo! What size did you use and how thick are your cabinets? Thanks, George. I love this idea and want to do my kitchen.

Did you line it up with the top of the rounding, leaving a little door showing outside the trim? Or did you line it up with the edge of the door? I am also wondering this exact thing. I am thinking i am going to fill it but i am not sure if that will make it look right. From the pictures it almost looks like she left the rounded edge, but its hard to know for sure.

I really appreciate it. Hi I am trying to do something similar to my cabinets but my plywood is just not smoothing out as much as I would like, did you have a problem with your plywood strips not ending up smooth enough?

This helps the smoothing process! Let me know if that helps or if you have any more questions! Thanks so much!! Thank you! You have great tutorial here! I have been wanting this shaker style cabinet for long. Now, I am thinking to pursue remodeling my kitchen, at first I decided to just repaint my cabinet with white color but I have change my mind, I will now try my favorite shaker style. I hope my family will like this. I was wondering the same thing so I did some searching.

I am seeing that most people use a brad nailer, 18 guage for the trim. Not sure if that is what she used though.

Following your guide. It still looks good. I used cabinet grade birch. My carpenter is putting on the strips and I will go from there. Thanks so much. I decided to be a DIYer and turn my cabinet doors into the Shaker style.

I work full time and then come home to my 2nd job of the kitchen remodel. I had Lowes cut the strips. I have to sand all the edges. I then glued and clamped them to the door. Next night, I have to prime with 2 coats of BIN as the doors are stained dark brown. Then, the next couple Diy Shaker Kitchen Cabinet Doors Jack nights painting both sides of the doors. I have 18 doors to do. I only have 11 finished. Well, over the weekend, I started putting the handles on the drawers. Took me 3 attempts to get them on straight.

TIP…use a nail to start a little whole before drilling the whole. I then tried hanging a couple doors…UGH!!! The first one I did was fairly large.

When I open the door, it rubs on the bottom big time. I tried another door. There are supposed to be 2 doors together in this particular cabinet. No room! This project is much bigger then I ever imagined. Hanging doors can be quite a pain. Designed with quality in mind to provide ultimate performance, they come with a year guarantee. See more Kitchen cabinets. Showing 24 of products. Home Right chevron.

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