Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Built-In Doors: Part 2

I refinished the wood doors.  I have skipped pictures of this because they all look about the same as other refinish work.  

 The most difficult thing was figuring out how to hold the glass in, I wanted to use the plastic clips because that seemed the simplest way, but the are not available at the Home Depot, which I realize is limited. So I bought them online with a variety of spacers sizes, I swear I measured but they the spacers were not deep enough.  Dad suggested that I use the plastic clips to hold the wood pieces in. So then I picked up the tiny quarter round and since nailing next to a piece of glass seems like a terrible idea I was back to using the plastic clips.  
A few drops of silicone went on the wood frame to prevent the glass from being able to rattle, you can see it right below the plastic clip:

The clips are hidden from the outside, but hold everything securely.


Here is the built-in without the doors:
and here it is with the doors on:
The next step is to refinish the drawer front, add new pulls and sliding hardware.

2 comments:

  1. That was quite the teaser the other day. The doors really finish off the built-ins and it was also a fun project!

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  2. Well the project spanned many months so I thought that it deserved at least two posts.

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