457mm cupboard doors

[burg]

Over the weekend I built our dogs crate into the base of the utility room cupboard. Originally the cupboard had two standard, 6 panel, 457mm width doors but the problem I now have is I can't refit those as if I was to cut them to the correct height I'd be left with some funny mouldings on the base of the door after cutting directly through the bottom two. I also can't cut an equal amount off as either way I do it one of the mouldings will be cut straight through. I understand these are hollow doors but I've read that it's fairly easy to peel back the inner lining from the cut off base and insert it into the cut door.

I'm looking for some inspiration on what I can fit in their place. 457mm width doors don't seem to be hugely common as-is but I'm also going to need ones that either have mouldings in the perfect place or completely flat ones. The best thing I've found so far is to spend £120ish on some completely flat doors and then cut them down to the correct length, the alternative being to make my own but that would only be worth it if much cheaper! Annoyingly the likes of Wickes and B&Q seem to have cheap £40 panel doors but no cheap flat doors.

Attached is an AI mockup of the cupboard (sadly the doors don't align with the cut shown here though) - as mines currently a bit of a mess!

 

[Old Salt]

In the 70’s people covered panel doors in hardboard to make them flat and modern.

 

[RrogerD]

Struggling to work out what you mean. The pic looks fine to me.
If what you meaning is that the height you want will put it through the moulding and not the flat portion then, cut where you can, add the insert from the (now cut-off) base of each door, glue and panel-pin in place then, simply add a false extra, non-opening panel of mdf etc into the gap between bottom of doors and top of cage.

 

[burg]

Struggling to work out what you mean. The pic looks fine to me.
If what you meaning is that the height you want will put it through the moulding and not the flat portion then, cut where you can, add the insert from the (now cut-off) base of each door, glue and panel-pin in place then, simply add a false extra, non-opening panel of mdf etc into the gap between bottom of doors and top of cage.

The image does look fine! Sorry it's probably a bit misleading, that's an AI generated image of what I wanted the final thing to look like which I created before I started - The real one is a bit of a mess and I'm not at home to picture it currently.

I'm mostly there but just don't have the doors fitted. If I were to cut the existing doors that I took off down to size I'd be going straight across the mouldings, however I cut it (top/bottom/both). I've attached another picture, the red line is an example of where I'd need to cut and what I'd be left with if that makes more sense? AI has created the perfect set of doors that I just can't buy!

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Struggling to work out what you mean. The pic looks fine to me.

The pic is not real @RrogerD it's what the OP wants to achieve but the panels in his actual doors don't align with the cut so it currently looks like a dogs dick (a pic would help here @burg ).

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

@burg Got a pic of your doors? Do they need to match others in the room/house or can they look a bit different? If you show us what you have and ideally want to achieve there may be some alternatives that don't involve being a qualified joiner and a workshop.

 

[burg]

@burg Got a pic of your doors? Do they need to match others in the room/house or can they look a bit different? If you show us what you have and ideally want to achieve there may be some alternatives that don't involve being a qualified joiner and a workshop.

I can't grab a picture of them at the moment but they're standard 6 panel hollow doors, cheap and nothing special. Your typical £40 B&Q door. I think it's going to be impossible to re-use these as there's no where I can cut that doesn't go through one.

Since these are specifically for the cabinet I'd be happy for them not to match the others around. I'd just go and buy some completely flat ones if there was anywhere local but the only place I can find are £120 a pair online thanks to the delivery cost - which might just be what I need to pay but I'll try contacting some local shops tomorrow too.

 

[burg]

In the end I managed to find a local company that supplied the 457mm flush plywood doors so I'm going to fetch them tomorrow. Less faff than trying to split and rebuild these panelled doors and saves me the £50-£60 postage costs of an online seller!

I hope the dog likes his new bed after this!