I ve transformed both the interior garage door in my home and the one in my in laws home as shown here from plain doors to panel doors with the easy diy door makeover method i m sharing with you today.
Making 6 panel doors.
Please be light on me as i know i make mistakes.
They have two 8 by 10 inch panels at the top with four larger 10 by 24 inch.
Build a panel door.
When you add moulding to a flat door you can choose if it looks like a 6 panel or some other style of door.
If your main door panel is 80 inches 200 cm tall and 25 inches 64 cm wide you should have enough material left over for about 4 80 in 200 cm x 4 5 in 11 cm sections and 6 16 in 41 cm x 4 5 in 11 cm sections.
In this article we ll be building the frame for an interior door from wood.
Also called rail and stile doors the advantage of this construction style is that the floating interior panels can shrink and expand with the weather without seriously affecting the overall fit of the door within a cabinet or passageway.
I do think the finished product turned out great materials used were3 2x6 x 8 foot1 2x8 x 8 foot this could be 4 foot 1 2.
This is my first instructable and my first try at building my own door.
In part two we ll build the interior panel and and finish it.
Frame and panel doors use a form of construction in which large floating panels are held within a framework of horizontal rails and vertical stiles.
There s a lot of lumber and a lot of weight plus they re bigger.
Full size home doors are a project we can all find a place for but they can be intimidating.