Making Shaker Style Doors Out Of Mdf

Buying new shaker style doors.

Making shaker style doors out of mdf.

For example create diy mdf shaker cabinet doors by gluing flat molding which can be wood or mdf to the outside edges of each panel. While there are many options for door making the standard is frame and panel doors. Order them on the interweb. Diy mdf shaker cabinet doors you can add trim to the panels by nailing or gluing wood molding to the surface edges.

It s the same classic look we selected for our basement development a few years earlier. Except shipping killed the deal. Building shaker style doors. Make them out of wood rails stiles with whatever panel you want.

These are doors with a frame made most of the time from hardwood and a panel made of anything from solid wood to plywood to mdf. About 15 each plus the cost of hinges. However you could make the grooves and tenons using a router table just as easily. Keeping trim styles consistent throughout a home helps to create good flow.

The simplest form of the frame and panel door is the shaker style door known for its no frills look clean and simple. Then i looked at just buying new cabinet doors and hinges. I found a few sites that made custom doors for a decent price. If you re somehow desperate to use mdf which seems odd to me as it s such a nasty material in so many ways cut a panel hole out of the middle of a door and put a panel in with sticking on the backside.

Not bad at all. That worked out to be 225. Shaker style trim we installed flat stock mdf in a shaker or craftsman style to match our new 3 panel doors. Making simple frame and panel cabinet doors is fairly easy and the thing i like best is you can do this either on the table saw or a router table.