Making Glass Cupboard Doors

For pricing and availability.

Making glass cupboard doors.

For pricing and availability. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. Whether you are remodeling a kitchen bathroom laundry room or any room with built in cabinets you can build your own cabinet doors to make your space look like new again. How to make the diy glass cabinet doors.

Surfaces 13 in w x. Rout sturdy door joinery and glass retainers in one operation. Surfaces 16 in w x 28 in h x 0 75 in d red oak wall cabinet door. Most production made cabinet doors are assembled with cope and stick joinery.

We recommend this alteration only for frame and panel cabinet doors see figure a where you can replace the inset wood panels with glass to make. Remove cabinet doors place existing hardware in a plastic bag and label doors and cabinets openings with painters tape numbering them to make re assembly easier. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy.

A pair of glass cabinet doors can add a designer touch to any kitchen. The secret lies in the workmanship and quality of materials used to make cabinet doors. Replacing cabinet doors will give your room an instant facelift. Cabinet doors can make or break the look of your kitchen or bathroom cabinets and the longevity of the cabinets.

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. The cabinet must be constructed with a frame surrounding a panel like the cabinet in the diagram. They can turn an ordinary cabinet into a decorative showcase or simply break up an otherwise monotonous row of solid doors. Measure to determine the exterior dimensions of the cabinet doors.

This tutorial is for replacing cabinet door panels with lexan glass. In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen. You can make the same joinery in your shop with a router table and a matched set of router bits a sticking bit forms a decorative profile around the inside edges of the frame and a coping bit creates a mirror image profile on the ends of the rails plus. Make sure to allow space for the hinges and some room between the doors if they are stacked on top of each other.

Choose which door to make.