Making Glass Cabinet Doors With Mullions

Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing.

Making glass cabinet doors with mullions.

Glass sold separately 1 8 thickness recommended decorative mullion doors for glass fronts available in 1 lite 4 lite and 6 lite configurations in standard and shaker edge styles. The back of the mullion cabinet door is slotted for glass. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. This can include glass doors mullion doors leaded glass louver doors and aluminum frame doors.

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. Actually the name of this cabinet insert design is mullion or muntin which it s basically an accent glass door with narrow strips of wood that divide the individual panes of glass or the grids that divide your glass kitchen cabinet. For example i do a kitchen and all the upper doors are glass with mullins. This video is about how i make cabinet glass doors with mullion.

Includes clear retainer moulding for easy glass installation. For all the sources to my kitchen make sure to check it out the following posts. Measure the height and width of the glass window to which you d like to add mullions and determine the size of each desired french pane. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy.

Mullion cabinet doors available wood species are listed below each mullion door style with the following key. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. The only advantage to putting the horizontal mullins of a glass door in first is that i have found it is normally the cabinetry that i build the door eighth the same. Walzcraft s frame and mullion cabinet doors are engineered to hold 1 8 thick glass using an optional rubber retainer.

90 mullion joints are built using our half lap construction which produces a very clean and strong mullion joint. However we also offer wood retainer molding that can be used for glass 1 8 1 4 thick. Used in cabinet doors built for a glass insert standard specifications are 1 frame with mullions grids outside corners of frame will be radiused curved to aid in installation on glass panel styles.