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