How To Make A Dutch Door With Shelf

Finally she added smart hardware choices to the conversion.

How to make a dutch door with shelf.

Now that you have your two doors set measure the height between the doors and the length. Instead of splurging on a new door knob she ingeniously relocated the existing knob from the top to the bottom half of the diy dutch door. How to convert a solid door to a dutch door. Dutch doors require four hinges to ensure proper safe function.

If this is a project you d rather not diy she has wonderful advice for working with a professional and still saving a little dough. The pocket holes worked like a charm to hold the shelf securely. Two to support the top panel and two to support the bottom panel. I wasn t sure it would be enough to support the shelf alone so bought l brackets but they were totally unnecessary.

When the upper door is open you can employ the screen to meet the shelf on the bottom half of the door to keep out pests and debris. Since standard interior doors come with three hinges only one additional hinge needs to be added. Let s talk about doing a dutch door with shelf beginning with measuring. They are fine on upper shelves small toys tissuebox crafts and other disposable decor as you create 2 faux frames outside of the inlay by gluing the 2 frames to the 1 ply and voila it is the most basic and most junky door on earth.

I told my wife it was easy. You proved it for me. Don t forget the charming shelf on the lower half of your dutch door. And let s start trimming down a 2 x 4 or 1 x 4 to fit.

We need one from the breezeway family room to the kitchen to allow better heat circulation from the wood stove in the breezeway and keep todlers animals on the side we want them. Dutch doors create a strong country look and feel. Get all the tips and tricks from skaie of homejelly. Once the original door is removed place the new hinge up against door frame roughly 30 above the floor.

Dutch door with shelf. I ll use the existing door and add a shelf. New store bought dutch doors hard to find run about 1300. To make that more sturdy rather than glue two of those decors together you make a 5 2 door.