Making Sliding Cupboard Doors

A proper sliding door in our home.

Making sliding cupboard doors.

Things you ll need tape measure 1 by 2 inch board 96 inches long miter saw router table straight router bit 1 8 inch wider than thickness of cabinet door sanding pad fine grit wood finish paintbrush paste wax cloth rag. The door was easy to make. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction.

Attach the plywood sheet to the back of the door. Apply wood glue on all top surfaces of the pieces of both your inner and outer frames. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. Sliding cabinet doors with inset track and glides the doors are bypass so either one can be closed on either side of the cabinet.

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. This is another thing that probably didn t really matter but i sized my one of the cabinet doors 1 wider than the other. I used mdf because i didn t want the cost t. Flip the door so that the newly attached plywood side faces down.

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. 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. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in.

Begin assembly of the door. A great feature to have on a cabinet is a sliding cabinet door. Apply glue with a brush to the inside of the stile where the rail meets it and insert the. Make sure you check out my demonstration on a technique i used to make the sliding rails.

In this video i demonstrated how to make a sliding door faceplate. 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 each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing.

Buying a new sliding cabinet door can be very expensive.