The two pieces of wood moulding will hold the glass panel in place.
Replace wooden door panel with glass.
What if i found an old paneled door and was able to replace one of the panels with a clouded glass.
Put a new moulding on top of the glass panel.
Unscrew the top hinge first and remove the lower hinge with an assistant holding the door in place.
Remove any fasteners in the corner of the panel with a small pry par.
How to replace wood door panels.
I found the perfect 2 paneled door for 75 at a salvage store up the road.
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.
Score one for the powder room.
You might find a few tiny nails where the panel meets the frame.
Remove the door from its frame.
The glass broke and we changed out glass panes that were broken for fresh plexiglas that was lying around.
Nail the moulding to the door taking care not to damage the glass.
Measurements were the same aside from the hinge placement and i was recklessly confident that this would be cake.
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.
All the doors in our home are beautiful old paneled doors which got me thinking.
Use a rubber mallet to carefully bang out.
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.
A quick visit to google confirmed that swapping out a wooden panel for a glass panel was totally possible.
You would simply need 2 panes of glass of the same size.
I would cut out the wood panel at the top of the door leaving the frame and the rest of the door entirely intact.
I would then route out the detail on the back of the paneled area allowing us to drop in a piece of glass and then fixing the glass with a bead or square wood trim stop.
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.
Then remove the panel replace with glass and install trim to lock the glass into place.