Cabinet Doors

Cabinet Doors

Your cabinet doors can greatly improve your laundry supply cabinet. A laundry supply cabinet can help keep a notoriously messy room in check. Although it takes up a small amount of floor space, the tall cabinet holds a surprising amount of supplies, including a full-length ironing board. You can install a drop down shelf at ironing board level and two stationary shelves to store folded clothes, detergent, bleach, and dryer sheets. On the door you can add a handy storage box that can hold anything from clothespins to spray bottles. A hinged hanger arm will keep freshly pressed clothing out of the way while you work.

Kitchen Cabinet Doors

If you plan and cut carefully, you can make all the plywood and the cabinet doors for this project from just two sheets of plywood. When you’re making the cabinet doors, you should cut the door to size by using a straightedge or square to draw guidelines from the edges on the front face of the door. These guidelines mark the position of the inside edges of the door frame. Use a miter box and backsaw to cut the stop molding at angles to fit against these lines on your cabinet doors. Drill pilot holes and attach the stop molding to the door using brads and glue.

Cut the box sides for your cabinet doors to size, and measure and mark a point from one corner along the length of each box side. Using a square, draw a cutting line from the opposite corner to this point and then cut along the line with a jig saw. Fasten the box bottom of your cabinet doors between the box sides with glue and counter bored wood screws. Then fasten the cabinet doors box front to the box bottom and sides.

Custom Cabinet Doors

Install the cabinet doors box on the door, using brass mending plates. The box should be installed so its bottom edge is about four feet from the bottom of the door. Cut the hanger arm to shape and mount the hanger arm on the inside of the door with a butt hinge, making sure its top edge is down from the top of the cabinet doors. The hinged end of the hanger should be about an inch from the cabinet doors’ side edges. Hang the cabinet doors with the hinges mounted to the inside of the side panel. Prime and paint the cabinet doors as desired, and attach magnetic touch latches to the cabinet side at the top and bottom of the opening to hold the cabinet doors closed.