Frameless Upper Cabinet Construction

It is made of 3 4 plywood throughout including a full back.

Frameless upper cabinet construction.

The top consists of 2 4 stretchers. This is one of the more common base cabinets designs in a kitchen. This allows you to better utilize the space in the carcass. One of the easiest cabinet carcasses to build is an upper cabinet and to make it even easier there s no face frame.

Up to a 30 wide standard base cabinet carcass can be constructed out of a single sheet of 4 x 8 plywood. Cut cabinet carcass pieces. Frameless construction developed in post world war ii europe. Frameless cabinetry is sometimes called full access cabinetry because it offers greater accessibility by eliminating the face frame.

The goal was to produce attractive and flexible cabinetry inexpensively. This will leave an 11 interior cabinet depth. Our cabinet will be made up of 6 pieces of plywood. Once you rip 3 strips at 12 wide you have a strip about 10 or so leftover.

The frameless cabinet design i find easiest to build install and provides exceptional strength is the one pictured right. This style is referred to as frameless or european style cabinet. Depending on the height you make the upper cabinets you should be able to get two upper cabinets from a sheet including enough for shelves from one sheet of plywood. This particular cabinet is a frameless or european style cabinet which basically means that there is no face frame.

It has one wide drawer at the top and two doors below that open to an adjustable shelf. The cabinet boxes are completely undifferentiated. The face frame cabinets have a hardwood frame that is attached to the sides top and bottom and overhangs each side 1 4 in. Use this for your shelves later.

2 sides a top and bottom a back and a door. In our tutorial we ll build a frameless upper cabinet that is 18 w x 30 h x 12 1 2 d. Standardization of cabinet dimensions of joinery of fittings and features is the linchpin. A there are slight differences between frameless euro style cabinets and traditional face frame cabinets.

Building simple frameless kitchen cabinets with pocket screws euro style i m back in the shop of bng dayton between cabin trips i use some down time to b.