Kitchen Cabinet Face Frame Dimensions

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Kitchen cabinet face frame dimensions.

All natural wood characteristics are acceptable on the inside edges. A face frame does a better job of this if it overlaps the box edges a bit. Making the face frame run past all the plywood edges provides a little wiggle room and hides not so perfect saw cuts on the plywood. Assembled face frames are only grain and color matched on the faces.

Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in. Standard stile rail dimensions for face frames is 1 1 2. Center or divider rails typically measure 2. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.

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. On the outside edge. All solid face frame edging 3 4 thick mortise tenon joinery even on the 3 4 wide face frames. Base cabinets wall cabinets and tall specialty cabinets all have their own range of standard sizes.

Please note that assembled face frames will have a size tolerance of 1mm on the overall sizes and 1mm within each opening. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Question in the past i have been building exclusively overlay face frame cabinets but lately i have been getting some inset door jobs. For the overlay doors i have been making all perimeter rails and.

Face frames cover plywood edges. Thoughts about choosing practical and attractive dimensions for face frames cabinet door stiles and rails and drawer fronts. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible.