How To Build A Door With Colored Glass

Clean the glass throughly and tape off the window or door frame.

How to build a door with colored glass.

Rip plane and sand enough 1 2 square wood to make the stops front and back for 1 8 safety glass or plastic. The outsides of this door will be 1 1 2 thick which is standard for an exterior door. Form and function all wrapped up together. Apply a thin coat of the spray paint and let it dry.

If you plan to make this for the interior it will be too thick to fit the existing jamb and you will have to modify your plan for accents. Apply additional coats if you wish for great opacity. These interior and exterior stained glass design templates are a starting point for implementing stained glass into your door. Each of these designs can be used in conjunction with our glass panel doors or substituted for wood panels in our solid wood panel doors stained glass can also be used in our dutch doors you have the option choose the caming selection linked to caming and glass color.

The only logical plan was to build the door myself. Remove as much tape as you can by hand then scrape and sand the rest of the tape and epoxy off. The glass front doors will keep out the dust plus the glass retains that open look and makes the shelves look like a pretty display case. So i want to step you through the process i used to build a custom size solid wood door with insulated glass half lite to fit the existing doorway opening.

I don t give exact measurements for the cutting of the wood in this project because the size of the doors will depend on the size of the shelf or cabinet you re. Nail one side of the stops in leaving a 3 16 reveal lay the glass or plastic in and install the other stops.