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Top cupboard doors

Postby chataigner » 13 Jan 2015, 08:57

Yesterday, I finished the joinery of three cupboard doors for the newly installed top cupboards above our kitchen sink (ran out of store space !!).

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These are in oak, M&T joints and profiled to match the rest of the kitchen.

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To keep the weight down, (it's all hanging on a plasterboard wall) I made them quite thin, then later realised they were too thin to use normal kitchen furniture hinges ! Damn !! :oops:

I've fitted them using some small brass hinges I happened to have in stock, but lining everything up was a bit of a nightmare, especially since the cupboards carcasses (budget DIY shed jobs) turned out to be not quite square. We chose semi-obscure glazing so you cant see every detail of half used packets, but there is still a bit of colour/texture visible (one fitted temporarily to show the effect). Plain wooden doors are, well, rather "plain".
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Re: Top cupboard doors

Postby Robert » 13 Jan 2015, 10:27

Don't envy you hanging those on normal hinges. Always hard to get them straight even with sound cabinets behind them.

When I refreshed our previous kitchen I put similar glass in one of the doors. It was a bit too see through and never looked right. Shame you can't easily buy the white etched plain glass you see in commercial kitchen cupboard doors.

Nice bit of joinery on the frames. If they are too thin for kitchen cupboard door hinges then retaining the glass must have taken some thought.
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Re: Top cupboard doors

Postby TrimTheKing » 13 Jan 2015, 10:29

I like the door detailing David, quite…farmhouse…if that makes sense. Think I agree with Robert on the glass, not really to my taste, but I'm not living there so that doesn't matter! :)

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Re: Top cupboard doors

Postby Rod » 13 Jan 2015, 10:34

Nice work and like the wood though I'm another who likes to keep things hidden

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Re: Top cupboard doors

Postby DaveL » 13 Jan 2015, 21:15

I did find a site selling frosted plastic sheet, I think that might give the look you are after, shame about the hinges.
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Re: Top cupboard doors

Postby Andyp » 13 Jan 2015, 21:23

Having glass doors might make it easier to find stuff :D

Have you left the oak unfinished?
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Re: Top cupboard doors

Postby chataigner » 14 Jan 2015, 09:01

Andy - It's unfinished in these pics, but will be lasured to match the other doors in the kitchen.
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Re: Top cupboard doors

Postby chataigner » 24 Jan 2015, 19:43

Doors now finished (by loml) with three coats of lasure to match the other doors in the kitchen, and glazing fiitted properly.

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I've also fitted little shop made mag catches using 8mm dia rare earth magnets glued into drilled holes. Works beautifully and very inconspicuous.

They are set so that the magnet in the door and the fixed magnet dont quite make contact, that way there is quite a good pull to keep the door closed, but no great effort required to open them. I find that if you let the magnets touch, they need a huge force to separate them.

Just waiting for the handles that I've ordered to arrive.
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