How To Hang Old Glass Panel Doors

The glass top protects the wood from spills and stains.

How to hang old glass panel doors.

Rather than spend another few hours lining up the new latch with the old hole on the door frame i just screwed in a hook and eye and called it a day. A twelve panel door is turned into a glass topped dining room table. This classy dining table retains its vintage farmhouse feel in the whitewashed distressed legs that have been added. Cut new window edge beading from 2 4 m lengths i bought new at a diy store to hold the glass in place.

This piece can be the perfect addition to decorate your entryway. All in this door cost me maybe 100. Find an old door you want to repurpose simply find or make a shelf that you like and add it to the door. Re hang the door without the glass in it weights a tonne with it.

Shabby chic barn door jewelry stand. Sizes will tend to be a little different but as long as you select french doors that are slightly smaller than the old door it will be fairly easy to add more material to your frame to make it fit. Strip off the old paint from the door frame using various sanding machines and a heat gun. Paint the whole door and cut beading strips gloss white in my case give it 2 3 coats.

This is truly a sophisticated repurposing of an old door. Cover an old door with decorative hanging bars for towels in the bathroom use long hooks for a coat rack in an entryway or use smaller teacup hooks perhaps on a smaller door to hang jewelry. Often stained glass is installed in front of a regular window to let the light shine through but you can hang it against a wall or hang it from the ceiling so that it hangs within a room. But that includes paint hinges sandpaper.