Making Glass Cupboard Doors

One of these ways you can add a little seasoning to your kitchen design is with creative glass cabinet doors.

Making glass cupboard doors.

Measure to determine the exterior dimensions of the cabinet doors. Cabinet doors can make or break the look of your kitchen or bathroom cabinets and the longevity of the cabinets. How to make the diy glass cabinet doors. Rout sturdy door joinery and glass retainers in one operation.

Then add 1 2 in the length of two tenons see figure a in project pdf s below. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. Over the years i have found that people will start their kitchen design journey with a more adventurous spirit than where they end up. Clamp router guides to the back side of the door.

Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. Lower the router bit and cut away the shoulders on the back side of an arched upper rail to create a square recess for the glass cabinet doors. Run a pattern bit along the guides to cut away the inside lips. Drop the glass plexi in place on top.

First measure the total width of two stiles placed side by side. The glass guru offers a wide variety of frosted patterned obscure and textured glass products to give your glass cabinet doors the perfect blend of style functionality durability and affordability. After working through design details and layout there seems to be this process at the very end. Add a bead of silicone along the inside edge on the front side of the cabinet door.

Make sure to allow space for the hinges and some room between the doors if they are stacked on top of each other. Most production made cabinet doors are assembled with cope and stick joinery. Who knows what the difference is. You can make the same joinery in your shop with a router table and a matched set of router bits.

We have a large number of samples available to view and choose from. Choose which door to make. The secret lies in the workmanship and quality of materials used to make cabinet doors. Subtract this number from the width of the door you want.

A pattern bit has a top mounted bearing.