How To Add A Glass Door To A Bookcase

Made to the highest of standards it comes with glass panel sliding doors along with accent lights that add a sense of depth and additional style to the finished piece.

How to add a glass door to a bookcase. This billy bookcase hack with half and half glass solid doors is a great way to keep things organized in the hallway. Be sure to clean both sides. Measure your bookshelf to ascertain the length and width of the bookshelf doors that needs to be installed. Place the saw at the height of 1 4 inch while cutting the wooden frame.

Instead of using your bookcase for well books use it as a display cabinet in the kitchen by adding some matte black glass doors. Ikea have made this far easier by actually creating glass doors for the billy bookcase now. Step 3 making a recess. Step 4.

Each door should measure 24 x 36. 4 measure and cut your trim pieces. Sometimes you just don t want to hide everything away in a cupboard and this stunning black framed glass door hack from april may for ikea is the perfect way to create a display cabinet. The doors slide open along a steel roller system at the top and the bottom to reveal the secret room.

To 66in wide and up to 96in. If you can recess the door measure from the inside of your frame. Bottom of the top of your frame to the top of your lowest shelf or the top of your kick plate. Step 2 buy the wood.

Adding doors to billy bookcases is something we are really liking about some of these hacks. Bookcase sizes range from 36in. Pre drill holes every couple of inches for the nails to go through. The doors are available in hardwood veneers mdf or vinyl lam.

Step 1 measurement. And cue the guy s at home depot starting to hate me since we re making shaker style doors you ll need to add trim pieces around the entire door. I was just going to add the doors and leave it at that but a lot of built ins like these are actually base cabinets with shallower bookcases set on top of them creating a ledge where they meet see my pinterest board on bookcase and built in inspirations here i like that little detail so i pondered how to modify the bookcases and eventually decided to use my jigsaw to cut mdf trim like this. Order them directly from the manufacturer.

Also measure the depth of the recess so you get your door the correct thickness. There s no easier way to. I choose to do just one door per bookcase to keep it simple. Clean aluminum with denatured alcohol to remove black grime.

Cut 1 4 plywood to cover the portion of shelves you want to cover. You can display what you want on display at the top and hide what you want hidden at the bottom genius. 3 measure and cut your doors. Width from inside edge to inside edge leaving a little space for the hinges.

Sand holes lightly to create a smooth finish. Add a pop of color. Each bookcase door has a fixed middle shelf and four adjustable shelves.