Creative Cupboard Door Solutions?

I would think that you have standard size cabinets. If you’re not interested in making the doors yourself you can purchase simple cabinet doors online. Cheapest way to go would be a painted surface, flat face door. You could buy something like that at Home Depot. Just be sure you work out the hinges that suit your needs. Maybe use the existing hinges.

Rick

in Carpenters and Woodworkers 12 years and 4 months ago

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serpentor | 12 years and 4 months ago

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Our kitchen cabinets are horrible. I’d like to reface them instead of actually ripping them out, since I’m competent to install new doors but definitely not competent to replace the whole cabinet.  I’m pretty handy but I am definitely not a carpenter or contractor. I’ve looked at a few mail order sources for new doors, including one that uses FSC wood which I’d prefer. I want to go as minimal as possible — what we have has about sixteen different levels of baroque detailing that are already caked with sloppy finish and attract a great deal of grime. I’d love flat fronts, but it seems like I’d need manufactured wood for that, and I’d prefer not to fill my kitchen with formaldahyde. Anyone have experience with modestly-priced cabinet door replacement? Can I do this for $20/door?

brokelin | 12 years and 4 months ago

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Doesn’t the answer depend on whether you have the kind of cabinets where the hinges are hidden inside, attached to the side of cabinet (like Ikea, but not only them), and where the door covers the entire front of the cabinet when closed, or the other kind, where the is a small front frame to the front of the cabinet which the hinges are attached to?

serpentor | 12 years and 4 months ago

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The doors sit entirely outside the frame. FWIW I’ve never seen truly crapy cabinets where the doors sit inside the frame.

daveinbedstuy | 12 years and 4 months ago

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These would be referref to as “full overlay” doors from what you describe.  You can construct all types of doors and spend differing amounts doing so.  I suspect you have what are called “European hinges” so hou’ll need a special forstner bit, I think 32 mm, to drill the whole that the hinge sets in (yes?).  The doors can be as simple as a piece of plywood (preferably with some nicer edging installed) to a frame with a panel inside.  If you make a frame and then rabit the edges to accept a panel, that can easily be done on a table saw or with a router.  To make the frame, the easiest way is to use the Kreg pocket hole jig system.