This is just what I was looking for so glad I didn't give up looking now and then to see if anyone posted just this! I've been told by many not to bother but this is much better than spending thousands. Thank you!

Thank you soooo much. You gave me such helpful direction. I only have 6 doors and no tools, but the glue part really helped. I am a fan!!!

Wow, those are exactly like my old cabinet doors. Perfect!

I’m starting my research into updating my own 1960’s kitchen and this was very insightful! I will now need to start collecting the tools I’ll need for this massive undertaking.

I need a handman to do this exact same thing for me right now. Great video.

Thank goodness I found this. Instead of investing $15-20k on a new cabinets, I can spend that money on all this wood working equipment and then do this job myself. When it comes to doing a kitchen, can we just agree that it’s going to be expensive regardless of the decision?

I’m updating my 1978 kitchen, and while the cabinets are sound, they have cheapie looking 3/4” plywood doors, like the doors in your video. My wife and I also decided to add stiles and rails to the original doors to simulate Shaker doors. However, I have run a bunch of the doors through my planer to thin them to 1/2”. I’ve done this because we don’t like the thicker appearance of just gluing the rails and stiles on the plywood. Of course, my planer’s max capacity is 12 1/2”. And we have quite a few cabinet doors wider than that. I am going to experiment with splitting a couple of doors down the middle, planing them to 1/2”, then gluing the halves back together before adding the rails and stiles. My first thought has been to slot the cut edge of each half and glue a full length spline into the slot to strengthen the joint. Guess in the next couple days I’ll see how that works out. 😂

Looking great! What an upgrade!!

Thanks so much you helped me so much I have a kitchen and bathroom with those cabinets

A lot of work but it’s worth it

very good video...thank you for sharing knowledge with all of us.

I have to find a carpenter to do that for my cabinets. I wonder if diy is more affordable compared to getting new cabinets.

Wow that a big undertaking. Did you say 28 doors? Hope you'll post a picture or a short video of the completed project.

Nice work. Thanks for the video!

I'm going to use faux wood blind slats that I have to upgrade my flat cabinets to shaker cabinets , what do you think? Yea or nay?

This was very informative! I do have a question. Regarding the added poplar on the edges where you cut out the inset. what size did you use You mentioned it was 1x6x8. Did you rip each on one down to size? I dont have a table saw and was wondering if I can just buy it that size. Thank you!

Excellent. I have the same project in the works. Did you have any drawers?

thats how my cabinets were I wanted to do the shaker look and i used water based primer zinseer bulls eye 1 2 3 and used shermin williams paint for the color but by the knobs i get alot of discoloration and peeling .. do you have any suggestions

What if your old cabinet doors are already painted? They have old slats on them and I want to make the doors smooth and paint them a nice light sage green color. So I'm thinking I might just fill the cracks between each slat with wood filler putty or something then put primer over it and then paint it but I don't plan on taking off the old paint since it might be lead.

With the popular did you add it every lip you removed or just one side?

Was the 1/4 inch material just pine plywood?

Did you put the popular on top and bottom and sides

Does Poplar twist?

Oil based paint only Don’t play around with that disgusting RV “wood”