How To Measure Face Frame Cabinet Doors

Above the bottom shelf of the cabinet.

How to measure face frame cabinet doors.

This style leaves 1 of the front frame exposed around the doors drawers. In the case of our face frame the opening width is 11 inches and the height is 13 inches. This is called the overlay and the most common overlay is. Now open the cabinet door and measure from the edge of the tape inside edge to the edge of.

Build the face frame so that the bottom rail rails are horizontal boards and stiles are vertical boards projects 1 16 in. Measure the width and height of the cabinet opening. Door hinges and drawer glides attach to the face frame. The video shows this process.

Take the doors and drawer fronts off the cabinet and toss them in the garbage can. Overlay door note the door sits in front of face frame and is larger than cabinet opening. The most common cabinet design has the doors slightly larger than the opening. Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in.

Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. We ll start with a single door. Next you will measure the openings hole in the face of the cabinet measure from the inside edges of the face frames of the cabinets. Wood magazine s kevin boyle shows you this foolproof method expla.

You can refer to this image or this video for more help understanding the term overlay. If you do not have old or existing doors or drawer fronts then you will have to decide how much of the cabinet face frame you want your new doors and drawer fronts to overlap. Frameless cabinets are sometimes called full overlay or european cabinets. Door hinges are concealed and mounted to the inside of the cabinet wall.

This makes room for adjustments when installing them next to one another. The side walls are typically 5 8 or 3 4 thick. Then you add this dimension to the opening size the door or drawer front will cover when it is installed. They are gone for good and will not be needed as they will only be a reminder of the 1980 s.

Full overlay is a more modern and popular style. Record each opening size on a. Here the doors and drawer fronts cover most of the cabinet s front frame leaving exposed around the doors drawers.