14 Interior Doors

Wow, very nice. I wish I knew how to build doors, all of ours in my house would eventually get switched.

-- http://www.ahomespecialist.net, Making design and application one. †

That’s a heck of project to take on. The color on the doors looks great.

-- ~Jason~ , Albuquerque NM

Steve, as always your dedication to detial and super raftmanship sets your wrlk apart from the rest of us.
Those doors look worth the effort you extended to make them and would abe a welcome addition and any home.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Very nice doors there – that was quite a job.. Well done

Thanks for sharing

-- Scotty - aka... SgtSnafu - Randleman NC

I like pine and your talent shines with this very soft material.

-- Semper Fi, Randy Sr.

Lets GET that supplier, doors look great

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Why did you decide to to put the shorter panels on the bottom instead of the top?

Very impressive!

-- spanky46 -- Never enough clamps...Never enough tools...Never enough time.

Nice looking doors.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Wow, GREAT job.

-- Stanley, North Georgia

Beautiful doors.

-- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!

WOW, what a tall order. Great work!

-- "Man's ingenuity has outrun his intelligence" (Joseph Wood Krutch)

Big sissy…
The panels are dictated by the latch rail height.
Typically that is 36” o/c so the lower panels must fit between the kick rail and the latch rail.
Look at any commercially made panel door and you will see the same thing.
Generally speaking things ‘look right’ when heavier on the bottom than the top. The tall panels appear narrower because of their height contributing to this illusion.

Pine isn’t my favorite wood but I just so happen to have 5000BF of it lying around so what they heck’;)
Much of it is 6/4 or better so perfect for doors. Had I 8/4 these doors would have ended up as 1-3/4 rather than 1-3/8 but no biggie.

Trim will probably be same material, 1-1/4 thick baseboards/casing (like I said, I have a LOT of 6/4 pine) ;)

Thanks for the kudos.
Steve

-- Steve in Kemptville On. Canada

Denis, Building doors isn’t as intimidating as it looks.
If you want cope & stick look it’s trickier but a shaker style door with flat panels and butt joints would be very easy. Just get a good dowel jig like a Dowelmax and do your joinery that way then rout or Dado the grooves for panels. Flat panels could be 1/2” glue up solids or even ply for that matter.
Of course M&T would be better, floating like I did or true M&T but it’s not necessary IMO for an interior door like this, dowels or dominos are more than strong enough.

From my experience one will never “know how” unless they TRY IT ;)

-- Steve in Kemptville On. Canada