How To Make A Dutch Door With Shelf

Let s talk about doing a dutch door with shelf beginning with measuring.

How to make a dutch door with shelf.

Dutch doors require four hinges to ensure proper safe function. How to convert a solid door to a dutch door. Once the original door is removed place the new hinge up against door frame roughly 30 above the floor. Now that you have your two doors set measure the height between the doors and the length.

When the upper door is open you can employ the screen to meet the shelf on the bottom half of the door to keep out pests and debris. We need one from the breezeway family room to the kitchen to allow better heat circulation from the wood stove in the breezeway and keep todlers animals on the side we want them. I used my kreg jig to make pocket holes on the underside of the shelf to fasten the shelf to the bottom half of the dutch door. If you have a table saw this is a great time to use one.

I ll use the existing door and add a shelf. You proved it for me. New store bought dutch doors hard to find run about 1300. I wasn t sure it would be enough to support the shelf alone so bought l brackets but they were totally unnecessary.

And let s start trimming down a 2 x 4 or 1 x 4 to fit. Instead of splurging on a new door knob she ingeniously relocated the existing knob from the top to the bottom half of the diy dutch door. Since standard interior doors come with three hinges only one additional hinge needs to be added. Don t forget the charming shelf on the lower half of your dutch door.

Finally she added smart hardware choices to the conversion. To make that more sturdy rather than glue two of those decors together you make a 5 2 door. The pocket holes worked like a charm to hold the shelf securely. They are fine on upper shelves small toys tissuebox crafts and other disposable decor as you create 2 faux frames outside of the inlay by gluing the 2 frames to the 1 ply and voila it is the most basic and most junky door on earth.

Dutch doors create a strong country look and feel. Two to support the top panel and two to support the bottom panel. Dutch doors resemble a standard door that has been cut in half resulting in a top and bottom leaf that may swing independently of each other. If this is a project you d rather not diy she has wonderful advice for working with a professional and still saving a little dough.