You said "installed" not "going to install". If you already have why do you need to cut in down?
Cutting a cabinet in half is not an easy task. In most of these installs the cabinet above the microwave is bumped up to give a tiered look in the kitchen. This looks better if other cabinets do it as well. I have built custom cabinets when the space was not available for this bump up.
Another option is to "blank" the space with a sheet of cabinet ply. with or with out doors. many of these micro also have integrated vents which eat into any possible cabinet space above.. so the missing space is taken up with ducts.
Cutting down the cabinet is the easy part, getting the door to be smaller not so much.
We need more information on what your cabinets are. Solid panel doors, raised panel doors, foil type? All have their ways to be made smaller. Some easy, some cannot be done.
This is what we did: we cut the doors down the center. There is a seam but you can hardly see it and I am going to paint them later anyway. Thanks for all the advice.
That's a nice "work around" ...did you "biscuit" or dowel the rails when you glued this back together?...that's an "end grain" to "end grain" on the doors "rails" glue joint...... which tends to be much weaker than "long grain" glue joints.
Well...I am not sure what you are asking but I probably didn't do it the best way. What I did was use wood glue that I use at my picture frame shop to join the wood ends and then I used a wood filler blend to blend in the seam. And that is it. I probably should add something on the back to make it stronger. No nails, dowls, etc. were used. You are probably cringing right about now.
A little cringe...but these door being way up high will not see the heavy use that most doors see in a kitchen. You could add a "mending plate" to the back of these to beef them up.
The problem with end grain glue joints is they suck up the glue more so the joints are often "starved" some carpenter will "size" the joint first by an application of glue to the ends...let that dry...then glue again and join.
Cutting a cabinet in half is not an easy task. In most of these installs the cabinet above the microwave is bumped up to give a tiered look in the kitchen. This looks better if other cabinets do it as well. I have built custom cabinets when the space was not available for this bump up.
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Another option is to "blank" the space with a sheet of cabinet ply. with or with out doors. many of these micro also have integrated vents which eat into any possible cabinet space above.. so the missing space is taken up with ducts.
We need more information on what your cabinets are. Solid panel doors, raised panel doors, foil type? All have their ways to be made smaller. Some easy, some cannot be done.
The problem with end grain glue joints is they suck up the glue more so the joints are often "starved" some carpenter will "size" the joint first by an application of glue to the ends...let that dry...then glue again and join.