How To Build A 5 Panel Door

How to build your own diy two panel shaker style door.

How to build a 5 panel door.

Panel doors consist of two stiles side pieces and two rails top and bottom along with a panel that sits between them. A groove holds the panel. Rip the rails and stiles to width per the cut list. You will trim them flush in later operations.

Please be light on me as i know i make mistakes. The groove is a hair wider than 3 4 and 1 2 deep. Build a panel 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.

And we have more to come so make sure that you ve subscribed by rss or email to get every update. You ve seen two different ways of adding molding to transform flat doors now jenna is here with two more gorgeous door updates. If your home is anything like mine it came with boring hollow core doors. This is my first instructable and my first try at building my own door.

Two ways to make a hollow core door into a 5 panel door one of which will only cost about 12. Full single panel 36 oak door four 5 25 oak baseboard cut to 27 space 9 25 and glue down my stuff was purchased at menards but can be found at nearly any. How to make the parts of a cabinet door. X research source cut the stiles and the rails from 4 4 2 54 cm material if you can and mill or plane down the material to a consistent width of 75 inches 2 cm.

The plane is a standard 5 bailey with a corrugated sole. Next up in shut the front door diy week. A favorite for more utilitarian areas the five panel door is composed of horizontal panels top to bottom. Years ago i got a quote for replacing them with lovely shaker style solid core doors and it was pricey.

In this video i show you a simple quick and affordable way to build yourself a unique door for about 50. This is what most door cutter sets are designed for. By the 1950s of course many interior and even exterior doors had lost all architectural relief and were a single plane of wood either solid and intercut with decorative glazing or for many types of interior doors with a hollow core. Crosscut them to length leaving them somewhat oversized.

Pencil scribbles on the workpiece help show the low spots. Mill the stock to 3 4 thickness for the stiles and rails and to 5 8 thickness for the panel.