Materials: White Besta frames, 7" wide oil finished wide plank engineered oak flooring, 1/16" X 3/4" hot rolled steel, 1 1/4" finish nails, 6 170 degree overlay hinges, wood strips for french cleats.
1. First job was to figure out how to suspend unit on wall. For this I made french cleats using 3/4" fir.
2. We had some 6' lengths for flooring that we lined up to create 3 doors with continuous grain pattern. The planks were joined with biscuit joints and glue. (a lot of flooring comes 5/8" thick, which would be easy to use by glueing to 1/8" masonite), then cut to size.
3. The edge of the flooring was wrapped in
3/4" X 1/16" hot rolled steel. (You can get this steel from a metal supplier). I cut the lengths and mitered the corners using 1/8 grinding wheel on a chop saw. (could easily be done without mitering corners). I pre-drilled holes for finish nails. Glued and nailed to edge of flooring.
4. I used 170 degree spring loaded overlay surface mounted hinges. Ended up having them open down as doors were a bit heavy.
~ Michael, Seattle, WA
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