Hi everyone, going to be starting making doors for pair of semi-fitted (i.e. protruding from alcoves) wardrobes I made, and just wanted to get some opinions on whether my design will work...
Plan is to make 2 pairs of face fitting doors for 2 wardrobes, each door panel approx 2300 x 500, in a kind of japenese shoji screen inspired style, i.e. dark wood frame with rice paper faced panel covered with stripwood lattice.
As they're wardrobe doors don't need to let light through so thought simplest way is to cut panels to full size of doors, prob using 18mm MDF, then glue 10mm x 60mm pine to look like rail and style frame on front (overhanging and edging with pine stripwood so hide mdf edges), then glue shoji paper over exposed central panel and finally glue / pin lattice strips (9mm square pine stripwood) over that and hang with kitchen cabinet hinges. Wanted to use sapele / utile ideally to match other furniture in room but can't find suitable size stripwood so thinking staining pine easier option?
Anyone see any problems with this idea? I'm particularly concerned about keeping doors flat, hence using mdf rather than ply, but will the pine frame make door unbalanced or not really with these thicknesses?
Cheers everyone
Plan is to make 2 pairs of face fitting doors for 2 wardrobes, each door panel approx 2300 x 500, in a kind of japenese shoji screen inspired style, i.e. dark wood frame with rice paper faced panel covered with stripwood lattice.
As they're wardrobe doors don't need to let light through so thought simplest way is to cut panels to full size of doors, prob using 18mm MDF, then glue 10mm x 60mm pine to look like rail and style frame on front (overhanging and edging with pine stripwood so hide mdf edges), then glue shoji paper over exposed central panel and finally glue / pin lattice strips (9mm square pine stripwood) over that and hang with kitchen cabinet hinges. Wanted to use sapele / utile ideally to match other furniture in room but can't find suitable size stripwood so thinking staining pine easier option?
Anyone see any problems with this idea? I'm particularly concerned about keeping doors flat, hence using mdf rather than ply, but will the pine frame make door unbalanced or not really with these thicknesses?
Cheers everyone