How To Add Cabinet Doors To A Bookcase

Bookcases here s that link again to the small and large ones i bought from target.

How to add cabinet doors to a bookcase. Apply decorative trim to the doors if desired. You may be able to find cabinet doors at your hardware store that will fit your bookcase. Shut the door and check to make sure the door isn t too close to the bookcase frame. An easy way to hide your books is by adding a door.

They re surprisingly very sturdy. Be sure to allow for space for the door to slide into the angle bar. If the opening is 36 by 72 inches the measurement would. To do the entire wall i used 1 large bookcase and 3 small ones.

Adding shaker style doors to a target bookcase you ll need. You can also have your plywood cut at home depot or lowes. Line up the bookcase so there is a 1 4 overhang on the top and attach the top screw of the top hinge into your spacer then the top screw of the bottom hinge. Each door is 58 5 x 14 on this ikea shelf.

In the future i might add trim to the doors. Then only thing left was to figure out how to turn these open bookcases into closed storage. So if you have any extra space in the kitchen or any other room and need storage consider getting a generic bookcase many people already have one in the house and turn it into an armoire pantry tv cabinet or anything else you might envision. With a few simple steps you can add a door to your bookcase and keep your little secret between you and the bookstore clerk.

I used this door cabinet trim similar to these from home depot. Add 3 inches to both measurements. Adding doors to a bookcase is not as difficult as it sounds. Attach doors to bookcase.

Measure the width and length of the bookcase opening where you wish to hang the doors. 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.