Now cut the lumber for the doors.
How to add doors to a cabinet.
Drill a hole on the bottom and top inner walls of the cabinet drill it closer to the side wall of the cabinet place the metallic duct inside this hole and secure it using fevicol now place the cylindrical projection on the hinge inside the duct in such a way the hinge edges are in contact with the cabinet walls top and bottom.
If your bookcase is looking a little too cluttered and you would like to clean up the look of your room without having to buy a new bookcase or getting rid of your book collection you can always add cabinet doors.
If there will only be one door subtract 1 4 from the overall width to allow for opening and wiggle room.
Adding doors to a bookcase is not as difficult as it sounds.
Each door is 58 5 x 14 on this ikea shelf.
Apply decorative trim to the doors if desired.
After receiving lots of questions about the process we decided to put together a diy.
This will give the 1 8 on each side plus 1 8 between the doors.
This is something we get asked to do often you can add mullions but i find that if you don t line the shelves up with them it don t look too good so just a s.
I told her to first add handles to the cabinet doors.
Again a nicer cabinet door won t have the piece that you can just pull out like this but if you re using unfinished cabinets like this it will work fine.
I used this door cabinet trim similar to these from home depot.
If the cabinet will have two doors which is generally the case subtract 3 8 from the overall width.
Read on for this easy tutorial plus a video.
You can also have your plywood cut at home depot or lowes.
You d be shocked at how handles adds so much visually to cabinets.
Be sure to allow for space for the door to slide into the angle bar.
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