How to Measure Cabinets for Cabinet Door Replacement Learn how to measure kitchen cabinets correctly and how to measure for a ½” overlay to ensure that you order cabinet doors that fit the way they should. If you’re ready to learn how to measure kitchen cabinets for replacement kitchen cabinet doors, we can help guide you through getting the most accurate measurements. That will be sanded and re painted.This video demonstrates how to measure existing cabinets’ openings to order correctly sized replacement kitchen cabinet doors. Please ignore the urethane finish than ran into the white. The left,right adjustment screw is all the way out (same with bottom one). You can clearly see that it's missing 2 or 3 mm of overlay. The left door, fits missing 2 or 3 mm overlay, plus since I have no more adjustment screw, it's crooked (least of my problems). That would get the door 1/4 more to the left as the cabinet wall would be thinner, but why doesn't it say anything about wood girth in the data sheet, webpage or anywhere? Is it just that I got cheap hinges? (hopefully) Or am I screwing something up? I am just guessing that maybe these hinges are for 1/2 plywood, not 3/4. And if were to go closer to the door edge, say 3mm, then it would just have less overlay. I even tried making the holes for the second door further away, almost 10mm, and now I do get full overlay, but the door is seperated like 5mm when closed and can't be adjusted closer as it hits the cabinet when open. I made the holes for the hinges 5mm from the door edge like I read iit should be. Plus, there is no longer any more adjustment screw (left, right) movement available when there should be. I could probably live with it, as it is only probably 2mm, but those 2mm, plus the other sides 2mm, makes the doors overlap by about 3mm and can't close, needing me to saw the doors thinner.

I don't get it, that screw is suppost to allow me to move the door left or right, I have it fully left, and it still won't fully overlay, so I have 0 adjustment left if I want to straighten the door.

I bought some hinges from home depot, that are full overlay, but the door does not fully overlay, even if the hinge ajustment is fully out (can see in last image). This is my first cabinet using european style hinges.

1 overlay cabinet hinges