How To Make A Dutch Door With Shelf

Dutch door with shelf.

How to make a dutch door with shelf.

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. 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 told my wife it was easy. You proved it for me.

Finally she added smart hardware choices to the conversion. How to convert a solid door to a dutch door. Since standard interior doors come with three hinges only one additional hinge needs to be added. I ll use the existing door and add a shelf.

If you have a table saw this is a great time to use one. Dutch doors require four hinges to ensure proper safe function. 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. To make that more sturdy rather than glue two of those decors together you make a 5 2 door.

And let s start trimming down a 2 x 4 or 1 x 4 to fit. Don t forget the charming shelf on the lower half of your dutch door. Let s talk about doing a dutch door with shelf beginning with measuring. 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.

Now that you have your two doors set measure the height between the doors and the length. I wasn t sure it would be enough to support the shelf alone so bought l brackets but they were totally unnecessary. Dutch doors create a strong country look and feel. Get all the tips and tricks from skaie of homejelly.

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. The pocket holes worked like a charm to hold the shelf securely. New store bought dutch doors hard to find run about 1300. 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.