Kitchen Cabinet Face Frame Dimensions

On the outside edge.

Kitchen cabinet face frame dimensions.

All natural wood characteristics are acceptable on the inside edges. Individual face frame rails vary in width from the top of the cabinet to the bottom. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Standard stile rail dimensions for face frames is 1 1 2.

Assembled face frames are only grain and color matched on the faces. When choosing a size for base cabinets remember that the sizes are from floor to top of cabinet box they don t include the thickness of whatever countertop will sit atop the base cabinets. Please note that assembled face frames will have a size tolerance of 1mm on the overall sizes and 1mm within each opening. 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.

The bottom rail is almost always 1 1 4 to 1 1 2 inches in width. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Question in the past i have been building exclusively overlay face frame cabinets but lately i have been getting some inset door jobs. All solid face frame edging 3 4 thick mortise tenon joinery even on the 3 4 wide face frames.

A face frame does a better job of this if it overlaps the box edges a bit. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. For the overlay doors i have been making all perimeter rails and. Thoughts about choosing practical and attractive dimensions for face frames cabinet door stiles and rails and drawer fronts.

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. Face frames cover plywood edges. Center or divider rails typically measure 2. I do not use edge tape because i believe it is strictly cheap junk.