Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Flat Panel Door Update


Anyone lucky enough to have these old, probably cheap, builder-grade, flat-panel doors from the 80's and 90's??  Yep, I said lucky.  You've got to see the potential.  These lovely gems reside in my sister's house.  Last fall she decided she'd had enough of the wood toned trim in her house and began removing every piece of trim and painstakingly painting it all white.  The result is fabulous but it made these doors jump out at you as being dated and boring.  Good thing she saw their potential The above picture is in her kitchen which has yet to receive its makeover.  Have I made you wait long enough?


Amazing right??  

She added 1/4" maple plywood panels (found at Lowes) cut into strips to create a shaker style door.  She only did the outside of this door since it's a closet.  As she moves on to other doors in the house, she'll do both sides.  As as a result, she'll have to make some adjustments to her door frames to accommodate the added thickness against the door jam.  She also used this tutorial as her guide with a few tweaks here and there. http://jennasuedesign.blogspot.com/2014/06/foyer-update-diy-salvaged-door.html

The paint color she used on the door (and stripes) is Benjamin Moore's Eagle Rock.  I'm seriously considering using it on the interior of my front door and on the (gulp) oak stair handrails in my house.  I'll keep you posted on that one.
Here's one more before and after!!!



3 comments:

  1. I think we may have the old flat-panel doors in our house, but we never bothered to remodel them. Your sister did a great job remodeling the doors by herself. I could probably paint our doors, but I wouldn’t know how to add the panels to them. I may have to look into the Eagle Rock paint color for my home.

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  2. On a bedroom door the panels are 1/2” thick (1/4 + 1/4). How do you get the door knob to fit the extra 1/2”?

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  3. I would think by cutting the 1/4 ply door knob hole bigger so the knob shaft base is sunken that 1/4 inch on each side.

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