Making French Doors From Scratch Woodwork

Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing.

Making french doors from scratch woodwork.

French doors are a popular and stylish way of opening a room to the outdoors or dividing up space. However odd sized doors are typically a special order item that can cost much more and take additional time. Although usually seen as double doors a french door can also be hung as a single door or bi fold. Building your own exterior doors can be more time consuming and expensive than buying ready made.

There s a lot of lumber and a lot of weight plus they re bigger. Stave core construction stave core stiles and rails are made by gluing thick face veneers onto both sides of a glued up core. To make a pair of 1 3 4 by 36 by 84 french doors plan to buy about 110 bd. In this video i show you how to make simple hardwood french doors.

How to build a door. Doors should generally be around 1 8 to 3 16 smaller than the frame. In this article we ll be building the frame for an interior door from wood. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel.

It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. Full size home doors are a project we can all find a place for but they can be intimidating. So my problem at this point is making new french doors.

My full build of solid panel door can be found here. In part two we ll build the interior panel and and finish it. The first step in making a door is taking measurements. A french door is usually a pair of doors that are made up of panes of glass fitted into frames of wood or aluminum.

If you also need to build or install a frame you will need to take the width of the frame into consideration and because shimming a door frame can add some thickness it is best to wait until after the door frame is installed before building the door or build them.