Trade toolkit · Kitchens

Kitchen Door and Drawer Front Size Calculator

Enter your cabinet sizes and the calculator gives every door and drawer front size for overlay or inset doors, with the gaps you choose. Same sizes are added together into one schedule you can print or download for your order.

Door style

Your cabinets

Enter the carcass sizes. For inset doors, enter the outside of the carcass and the tool works out the opening.

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Door and drawer front schedule

Height × width, in millimetres. Same sizes are added together so you can order straight from it.

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Need the doors made? We machine one-piece MDF doors and drawer fronts to any size. Send us this schedule for a price.

How to use it

From cabinet list to door schedule.

  1. Choose overlay or inset. Overlay (lay-on) doors cover the front of the carcass. Inset doors sit inside it.
  2. Set your gaps. The UK standard for overlay doors is 3 mm off the width per door and 5 mm off the height, so a 600 mm unit takes a 597 mm door and a 720 mm carcass takes a 715 mm door.
  3. Add your cabinets. Width, height, the fronts on each and how many.
  4. Order from the schedule. Identical sizes are combined with the cabinets they are used on.

The sizes for overlay doors

Door width is the cabinet width divided by the number of doors, less the gap: 600 ÷ 2 − 3 = 297. Drawer fronts are the full cabinet width less the gap. For drawer stacks, the top drawer is the height you set (140 mm by default) and the rest share the remaining height equally, less the gap between each front. A 720 mm three drawer unit gives 140, 284.5 and 284.5 mm fronts.

Questions

Common questions.

What size door for a 600 mm kitchen unit?

For a standard 720 mm high base unit with overlay doors, a single 715 × 597 mm door. A 1000 mm unit with two doors takes two 715 × 497 mm doors.

What gap should be between kitchen doors?

Around 3 mm between doors and drawer fronts is standard for overlay doors. Inset doors are usually set with a 2 to 3 mm gap all round.

Can you make the doors?

Yes. We machine one-piece MDF doors and drawer fronts to any size, in 7 days, and supply BA and PWS doors with our cabinets. Send us the schedule from this page.

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Need the doors?

MDF doors made to any size.

One-piece MDF shaker, slab and lattice doors, machined to your schedule in our Long Eaton workshop in 7 days. Email info@dtjinteriors.co.uk, call 0115 784 8231 or WhatsApp 07956 032306.