Plywood Sliding Cabinet Doors

Birch plywood for the sliding doors.

Plywood sliding cabinet doors.

Shows how to router the edges of the door to give it a custom detail. Video 1 of 2 shows step by step how i made it. You can reduce the cost by using mdf medium density fiberboard for painted cabinets or even construction grade plywood for down and dirty utility cabinets. Slab plywood doors slab plywood doors are real wood veneer over plywood with a banded edge.

For a handsome natural wood look we used 3 4 in. A banded edge door may have a rough seam that may show through the. Now i did full overlay doors. Installing the doors is exactly like installing sliding closet doors.

Cutting up the wood doing the dowel based joinery and cutting th. This video shows how to build cabinet doors using 3 4 cabinet grade plywood. The cabinet is just a basic box. You only need inexpensive hollow core doors and sliding door hardware.

There is a joist right above the front edge of these upper cabinets so i butted a 2 4 up right against the front of the cabinets and drove 3 screws in at an angle in order to secure it to the joist. Don t let the size of this sliding cabinet doors diy project fool you. Cabinet sliding doors when it comes to custom products and solutions we have more options than ever. I build a simple cabinet with sliding doors.

Birch plywood for the end and divider panels and 1 4 in. Edge banding is of a matching wood species. From cut to size door and drawer fronts from rehau and pannellis to cabinet components from rincomatic we have a solution for a every design style and budget. Nothing more than simple framing covered with plywood.

That s why i chose a specialty plywood option and went with hickory. Excellent quality hardwood sliding door tracks. For the doors i measured my cabinet box and cut the hickory panels smaller on in both. I wanted the entire cabinet carcass to be hidden and basically let the doors steal the show.

Even though i have chosen to not have any doors on the cabinet i purchased these tracks for i tested the sliding feature of these tracks in a mock up using 1 4inch paneling as a door and found them smooth as any track i have ever encountered they are easy to install and require no lubrication. X research source cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. A flat door panel will usually be made from 25 inch 6 mm plywood the same wood type as the rest of the cabinet.