Where to buy affordable unfinished cabinet doors
Pre-made custom doors often cost more than the plywood used to build the cabinet boxes. Most available options are expensive, designed strictly for kitchens, and rarely come unfinished to allow for custom painting or staining. This leaves renovators stuck choosing between paying high prices or going on the hook to build the doors themselves.
Overview
People affected2 accounts across 1 forum
Workarounds found4 items attempted
Community agreement3 total upvotes
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1building the cabinet doors yourselfDid this help you?
- 2accepting the market rate for custom sizesDid this help you?
- 3building them entirely from scratchDid this help you?
- 4doing an IKEA hackDid this help you?
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In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
r/HomeImprovement2 people · October 2026
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