How To Hide Door Hinges

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How to hide door hinges.

Insert a center punch into a hole about 2 inches up from the corner. Then when you tilt that book forward it pulls the cable which opens the latch. Cover the woodblock with a book cover and mount it to the shelf on a hinge. Custom service hardware hidden door hinges these hinges can support up to 500 lb making them especially useful for a fully loaded bookcase door.

How to install hidden door hinges. The hinge called the soss 518 wide throw hinge can literally wrap around molding to completely hide the reveal line. Turn it one way for the door and one way. Since a hinge is a bulky component you must hide the bulk of the part within the cabinet using a special drill bit.

Hide the entire opening within the panels and molding to create a seamless paneled wall. More on hidden doors. Or a door with a decent amount of trim conceals a door nicely. Measure the location of the screw holes on the hinge.

In this video matt jordan will show you a super hidden room behind a locked keypad in a shiplap wall. No worries replace the door with a section of the bookcase that not only displays books but opens on hinges to reveal the hidden room behind it. There will be an arrow indicating the hole. Step 1 open the cabinet door and use a phillips screwdriver to remove the screws from the current hinges.

With the new wrap around hinge a door in the wall has never been easier or more stealthy. This video sponsored by sugatsune hardware https su. Most standard european hinges require you to drill a hole 1 7 16 inches inside the wall of the cabinet and 1 16 inch inside the door for the. Place the hinge template which is a small reversible rectangular plate on the corner of the door.

Take the standard door out.