Standard Cabinet Face Frame Dimensions

Assembled face frames are only grain and color matched on the faces.

Standard cabinet face frame dimensions.

I do not use edge tape because i believe it is strictly cheap junk. Unfinished custom wood cabinet front face frames design your own cabinet fronts and have them shipped direct to ready to finish your front face frame price will be calculated based on option selections and size. All solid face frame edging 3 4 thick mortise tenon joinery even on the 3 4 wide face frames. All natural wood characteristics are acceptable on the inside edges.

Question in the past i have been building exclusively overlay face frame cabinets but lately i have been getting some inset door jobs. I might use a 1 1 2 stile where the cabinet butts up to the wall then 3 4 stiles where i have a single vertical stile in the center of a cabinet and perhaps 1 or 1 1 4 rails. It s standard for all cabinets and doors due to the fact that most cabinet grade lumber of. Merillat favors 2 wide door frames because they use valuable hardwood.

Typical horizontal rails are 1 4 inch wide at the bottom of the face frame with 2 inch wide rails between drawers and door openings. The illustrations below represent typical cabinet layouts for the number of openings. Merillat the largest maker of cabinets installed in new construction long ago settled on 2 wide cabinet face frames and door frames even though it tried other door frame widths such as 1 1 8. The basic structure of shaker cabinets is no different than any other cabinet using hardwood face frames which is almost always 3 4 inch thick.

Thoughts about choosing practical and attractive dimensions for face frames cabinet door stiles and rails and drawer fronts. For the overlay doors i have been making all perimeter rails and. Stiles and rails for doors and face frames are always the same thickness typically 3 4 inch. Typical vertical stiles for face frames are all 3 inches wide.