Kitchen Cabinet Face Frame Dimensions

Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.

Kitchen cabinet face frame dimensions.

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. All solid face frame edging 3 4 thick mortise tenon joinery even on the 3 4 wide face frames. Standard stile rail dimensions for face frames is 1 1 2. All natural wood characteristics are acceptable on the inside edges.

Assembled face frames are only grain and color matched on the faces. Face frames cover plywood edges. Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in. Thoughts about choosing practical and attractive dimensions for face frames cabinet door stiles and rails and drawer fronts.

Center or divider rails typically measure 2. A face frame does a better job of this if it overlaps the box edges a bit. 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. 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 sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. On the outside edge. Individual face frame rails vary in width from the top of the cabinet to the bottom. The bottom rail is almost always 1 1 4 to 1 1 2 inches in width.

I do not use edge tape because i believe it is strictly cheap junk. Please note that assembled face frames will have a size tolerance of 1mm on the overall sizes and 1mm within each opening. Base cabinets wall cabinets and tall specialty cabinets all have their own range of standard sizes. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions.