To get started on glass cabinet doors remove the doors from the cabinets and remove all hardware from the doors.
Replace wooden door panel with glass.
How to replace wood door panels.
Try to choose a new moulding that matches the old one.
Measurements were the same aside from the hinge placement and i was recklessly confident that this would be cake.
If you have the tools it is actually pretty easy to make a double pane window.
Replacing glass panels with wood is not the same structurally as a solid wood door or door with glass on top and a solid wood bottom even if you have to buy it new it would be a lot less work and more dependable to use a different door here.
What if i found an old paneled door and was able to replace one of the panels with a clouded glass.
All the doors in our home are beautiful old paneled doors which got me thinking.
Then remove the panel replace with glass and install trim to lock the glass into place.
I found the perfect 2 paneled door for 75 at a salvage store up the road.
The glass broke and we changed out glass panes that were broken for fresh plexiglas that was lying around.
You would simply need 2 panes of glass of the same size.
Use a rubber mallet to carefully bang out.
Score one for the powder room.
Remove any fasteners in the corner of the panel with a small pry par.
The two pieces of wood moulding will hold the glass panel in place.
Examine the back side of each door.
Unscrew the top hinge first and remove the lower hinge with an assistant holding the door in place.
I would cut out the wood panel at the top of the door leaving the frame and the rest of the door entirely intact.
A quick visit to google confirmed that swapping out a wooden panel for a glass panel was totally possible.
Nail the moulding to the door taking care not to damage the glass.
Remove the door from its frame.
Insert the glass panel into the cut area carefully and press the glass onto the moulding that was not removed.
I would then route out the detail on the back of the paneled area allowing us to drop in a piece of glass and then fixing the glass with a bead or square wood trim stop.
You might find a few tiny nails where the panel meets the frame.
If so gouge away wood with a utility knife to expose the nail heads and pull the nails with a pliers.
We go through taking the retaining trim off to.