Making Sliding Cupboard Doors

Cabinet doors can make or break the look of your kitchen or bathroom cabinets and the longevity of the cabinets.

Making sliding cupboard doors.

The wooden track will make the entire project more cohesive. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. The secret lies in the workmanship and quality of materials used to make cabinet doors.

A great feature to have on a cabinet is a sliding cabinet door. Instead of using a plastic or metal door track you can make your own wooden sliding cabinet door track. This month steve johnson starts a new project in the down to earth workshop. In this video i demonstrated how to make tracks for a sliding wooden door and a technique to modify your saw blade.

Buying a new sliding cabinet door can be very expensive. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. Choose which door to make.

But if you don t have this convenience this project will one up those shelves. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. The hardware consists of two heavy duty bottom mounted slides and one center mounted top slide that together can support 130 lbs. A wooden sliding door is an attractive feature to add to a cabinet project.

Most cabinet manufacturers now include roll out shelves in their base cabinets. 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. Feel free to ask me any questions and com. Other than the visual appeal cabinet doors don t serve any function besides keeping some dust out of the cabinet.

So they haven t been a high priority on my mile long to do list. Since i m finally investing some real thought time and energy into revamping my shop i finally built some sliding cabinet doors for my workshop.