You might find a few tiny nails where the panel meets the frame.
Replace wooden door panel with glass.
Remove any fasteners in the corner of the panel with a small pry par.
The two pieces of wood moulding will hold the glass panel in place.
If so gouge away wood with a utility knife to expose the nail heads and pull the nails with a pliers.
Remove the door from its frame.
Nail the moulding to the door taking care not to damage the glass.
We go through taking the retaining trim off to.
Insert the glass panel into the cut area carefully and press the glass onto the moulding that was not removed.
What if i found an old paneled door and was able to replace one of the panels with a clouded glass.
I would cut out the wood panel at the top of the door leaving the frame and the rest of the door entirely intact.
The glass broke and we changed out glass panes that were broken for fresh plexiglas that was lying around.
To get started on glass cabinet doors remove the doors from the cabinets and remove all hardware from the doors.
Examine the back side of each door.
Try to choose a new moulding that matches the old one.
You would insert the first as normal then use thin strips of wood i d say approximately 1 8.
You would simply need 2 panes of glass of the same size.
Use a rubber mallet to carefully bang out.
I found the perfect 2 paneled door for 75 at a salvage store up the road.
Score one for the powder room.
How to replace wood door panels.
Measurements were the same aside from the hinge placement and i was recklessly confident that this would be cake.
All the doors in our home are beautiful old paneled doors which got me thinking.
A quick visit to google confirmed that swapping out a wooden panel for a glass panel was totally possible.
Unscrew the top hinge first and remove the lower hinge with an assistant holding the door in place.
My pipe dream was to replace the solid hollow door with something that echoed the architecture around the house a bit more.
Then remove the panel replace with glass and install trim to lock the glass into place.
Replacing glass panels with wood is not the same structurally as a solid wood door or door with glass on top and a solid wood bottom even if you have to buy it new it would be a lot less work and more dependable to use a different door here.