Custom Door Build

This is an attic closet door that I remade from an original full-height period appropriate door. There was some math, fancy cutting, use of molding planes and dowels to reinforce. It is now installed in our attic “harry Potter Closet” and this is why my wife pays me the BIG MONEY!!

Just kidding, I don’t get paid to make stuff at home. I am an indentured servant to her Pinterest account….

Still the fastest way to inset a hinge. no set up, no extra measuring. Mark, cut, chisel – 5 minutes and done. Also DO NOT use a steel hammer on chisels – use a wood mallet.
Maintaining the gap space was/is a big deal to me.
Cutting that angle was done by hand with a pull saw, finished with a block plane