How To Measure Face Frame Cabinet Doors

We ll start with a single door.

How to measure face frame cabinet doors.

Frameless cabinets are sometimes called full overlay or european cabinets. This makes room for adjustments when installing them next to one another. Take the doors and drawer fronts off the cabinet and toss them in the garbage can. The most common cabinet design has the doors slightly larger than the opening.

Then you add this dimension to the opening size the door or drawer front will cover when it is installed. Here the doors and drawer fronts cover most of the cabinet s front frame leaving exposed around the doors drawers. This style leaves 1 of the front frame exposed around the doors drawers. They are gone for good and will not be needed as they will only be a reminder of the 1980 s.

The video shows this process. Simply put a frameless cabinet has no wood frame on the front of the cabinet. Measure the width and height of the cabinet opening. 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.

Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers. Above the bottom shelf of the cabinet. Line up the edge of your door with the edge of a piece of tape and apply the tape to the face frame of the cabinet must be on the hinged side of the door. 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.

Overlay door note the door sits in front of face frame and is larger than cabinet opening. Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in. Door hinges are concealed and mounted to the inside of the cabinet wall. Now open the cabinet door and measure from the edge of the tape inside edge to the edge of.

The side walls are typically 5 8 or 3 4 thick. Wood magazine s kevin boyle shows you this foolproof method expla. This is called the overlay and the most common overlay is. Full overlay is a more modern and popular style.

Door hinges and drawer glides attach to the face frame. On the outside edge. You can refer to this image or this video for more help understanding the term overlay.