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Door Update (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We had an ugly metal clad solid wood exterior door that leads from a basement family room into our below grade garage. I had redone the floor and trim in the family room and was looking for a way to fancy up the door without having to spend a fortune.

Original door

Took the door off and cleaned it up

Cut 1/2 MDF to size to give the apperance of a 5 panel door

Glued on the panels, and filled and sanded all the edges. Chamfered edges

Primed

Paint added

Rehung- the MDF made an already thick door significantly thicker so I had to spend quite some time finding hardware that would work.

It's been 4 years since this was installed and it's held up perfect. I was worried about the MDF getting dinged, but it has not.

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[–] Waraugh 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing the story and progress. It looks really good. Did you consider routing the edges? I’m not sure if I would have a preference one way over the other, was just curious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There is a slight chamfer on the edges that I put on with a hand plane. With MDF I knew I didn't want hard edges since the can get dingged pretty easy. It's held up well so far.

[–] arditty 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That looks great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks 👍