Making Sliding Cupboard Doors

We actually had to go to menards and pick out new wood for this project.

Making sliding cupboard doors.

Attach the plywood sheet to the back of the door. 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. 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. For larger cabinets that are in the garage act as a display case or have some other function a sliding cabinet door will help make them more convenient to open.

Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. Place the plywood on top of the frame apply wood glue and secure it with screws once it s aligned. This cabinet with sliding doors is made out of mdf and the dimensions are 140cm lenght 40cm width and 80cm hight. A great feature to have on a cabinet is a sliding cabinet door.

A proper sliding door in our home. In this video i demonstrated how to make a sliding door faceplate. This is another thing that probably didn t really matter but i sized my one of the cabinet doors 1 wider than the other. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in.

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. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. I used mdf because i didn t want the cost t.

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. Apply wood glue on all top surfaces of the pieces of both your inner and outer frames.

Flip the door so that the newly attached plywood side faces down. Buying a new sliding cabinet door can be very expensive. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. Begin assembly of the door.

The door was easy to make.