How To Build A Bookcase Door

With a few tools and materials you can build your own bookcase that doubles as a secret door into a crawlspace or attic. 4 Fixed Caster Wheel.

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How to Make a Secret DoorBookcase This tutorial contains a ton of pictures that shows exactly how to build a small bookcase door including details on building a pivoting secret book that opens a gate latch on the inside.

How to build a bookcase door. This both ensures that youll buy the right number and sizes of the IKEA BILLY Bookcase and also that the door opening to the room you want to hide will line up with the wide BILLY Bookcase. From what Ive learned the best way to design and build a durable swing-out bookcase door one that can be adjusted easily and one thats truly invisible is to design the door to swing above the baseboard and hang it on a center-hung pivot hinge. Calculate the dimensions of your space.

This content is imported from YouTube. Here are the supplies needed to build the door. A steel frame made from box tubing.

The measurements of these will really depend on the size of your bookcase. Using a measuring tape measure and write down the opening for the space you want the doors. Trim to 2120 mm 83 716 long and mark outside right and outside left.

Weld a steel frame to support the bookcase. That particular bookcase was created by Gail at My Repurposed Life how fantastic. Measure the open wall space and door opening.

Install the steel frame. Thin Plywood for back. Determine How Much Wood is Needed.

I searched for an old door and finally found one at one of our local flea markets for 45 not too bad. Mark these two pieces inside left and inside right. Hidden hinges are used to make the bookcase.

I wrote down the formula and some basic sketches to figure out how much wood. Scrap wood for shimming and inside book. There are few projects I work on today without doing a scale drawing first.

Cut a rabbet to accommodate the 14 plywood for the back 6 mm but measure it - make it about 10 mm 38 wide so fixing it to the back is easy. The folks at PureBond Plywood posted a picture of a bookcase made with an old door on the PureBond Facebook page and I thought it was a fabulous idea. First measure how wide the bookshelf will need to be to cover the door.

You will also need two cross pieces with 90 for the centre of each door. Creating the Door Frames First I cut 14 select pine boards with 45 mitred corners to the correct length for the outer frame of the doors. 12s to build face frame.

Dont hinge the wood shelves directly. How to Build Cabinet Doors for ANY Bookcase Step 1. Rip one board 185 mm 7 14 wide out of each left over piece.

34 MDF to build bookshelf. How to Build a Bookcase Using an Old Door. How to make a secret door using BILLY bookcases Measure the space.

Start With a Drawing.

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