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How to make an entrance and interior wooden door with your own hands: a manufacturing scheme

Such a task as do-it-yourself wooden doors is quite feasible even for a beginner in this business. Wood is a very easy-to-use material, so your imagination is practically unlimited. You have a unique opportunity to create one of the most important interior elements in your home.

Wooden doors are suitable for any interior

Material selection

If you do everything with your own hands from scratch, first of all you need to choose the material. Since you will be making interior and entrance doors made of wood at home, for this purpose it is best to select sufficiently strong rocks that can be processed well. Pay attention to these options:

  • Pine. One of the cheapest breeds, has a small weight, lends itself well to processing. It can dry out over time, so it is not always appropriate as a door leaf.
  • Alder. It is also light and soft, perfectly processed, but not resistant to decay and shrinkage.
  • Birch. Dense and moderately hard, it has a viscosity and a beautiful texture, it can deteriorate over time.
  • Oak. Very strong and durable wood, but it is quite difficult to handle it with your own hands, it can crack during the work.
  • Beech. Very durable and resistant to mechanical stress, it tends to react to changes in humidity, therefore, without fail, it requires special processing.
  • Larch. Durable, with a uniform beautiful texture, it is well processed and does not deteriorate over time.
  • Nut. Works well and is highly resistant to damage and moisture. Durable breed.
  • Maple. Durable, but at the same time, excellent workability, excellent polishing and good resistance to moisture.

Pine is the most affordable material

Impregnation and varnishing allow to eliminate some of the shortcomings; in most cases, the weight of the material and its durability become the determining factor.

Tools and accessories

Since it is supposed to make a wooden door yourself, you need to take care of the availability of all the necessary tools and auxiliary materials. If you are making a front door, you will need:

  • viewing eye;
  • locks;
  • pen.

Wooden door fittings

For interior, it will be enough handles with or without a latch. Also select the appropriate loops. Of the tools, you will most likely need the following:

  • drill;
  • planer, sandpaper or grinder;
  • chisel;
  • saw;
  • nails.

Fabric making

The most important stage is, perhaps, the manufacture of the canvas itself. There are many ways to make a wooden door with your own hands, it is important to take into account the specifics of the opening for which this design is being prepared.

How to make a solid wooden entrance door to the house? For this purpose, it is best to use a solid wooden canvas. The fact is that the entrance to the house must be reliably protected from strangers, as well as from drafts and noise from the street. To do this, you need to choose a material that will cope with all these tasks. Of course, you can try to create a figured product with various decorative inserts and overlays, but doing it yourself is much more difficult, so for the first time it's better to go the easy way.

A wooden door can be made not only from a single leaf, but also from individual boards.

To begin with, measure the doorway, according to these data, the frame for the door to the house is being manufactured. Next, you need to fill the boards on one side of it. To improve sound insulation, fill the inside with insulation. After that, fill the boards on the other side. In principle, to enter the house can be done with deaf inserts.

And how to make interior doors from wood with your own hands? There are many more options available here:

  • Panels- the fabric is made according to the principle of the designer. The frame is represented by a thicker array. A panel is inserted into the center of the door. To do this, recesses are drilled in the frame according to the type of grooves, thin panels are inserted there. They can be of different types, it all depends on the wishes of the master. The joints are reinforced with carpentry glue.
  • glass inserts- to begin with, the base is made, and after that a recess for the insert is cut from above. Glass can be inserted into the grooves or fixed in the frame with glazing beads.
  • Sliding- a canvas of small thickness or a wooden frame upholstered with other material is used.

Paneled wooden door design

Decor

After you make the basis for the canvas, you can proceed to the next step, the essence of which is processing and. First of all, consider the manufacture of entrance wooden doors to the house with your own hands. There are several options available here. Mandatory is antiseptic impregnation. After that, you can choose one of these methods:

  • impregnation with stain and varnishing;
  • pasting with veneer or PVC;
  • lining with dermantine.

If the canvas turned out to be small in thickness, you can use MDF overlays, which will not only increase the massiveness of the structure, but also give the door additional useful properties.

For interior wooden doors, you can come up with an original design and bring it to life with your own hands. In addition, there is where to roam the imagination. Most popular options:

  • preservation of wood texture - stain and varnish or wax impregnation;
  • painting;
  • film, veneer or laminate coating;
  • decorating with fabric;
  • wallpapering;
  • picture on the door.

If moisture-sensitive wood is used, it is recommended to treat it with a water-repellent impregnation, or even better, cover it with several layers of varnish.

In order for the wooden door leaf to serve for a long time, it must be treated with a protective impregnation or painted.

Installation

The last stage in the manufacture of wooden doors with your own hands is the installation of the canvas in the doorway. To do this, you can use an old loot or mount a new box. For this purpose, the same material is used as for the canvas.

A very important point is the insertion of loops. To make the door perfect, you need to carefully align the position of the canvas relative to the opening and the floor. The standard option is mortise hinges, they are installed flush.

A wooden door is usually installed with mortise hinges.

After the door is hung, you can start inserting locks and handles. To do this, it is convenient to use a drill with various nozzles or a screwdriver if the wood is soft enough. First, the mechanism itself is installed on the door, after which the position of the halyard tongue and crossbars is verified and a recess is drilled in the response frame. Knobs, lever handles or options with a rosette can be installed on interior doors. But at the entrance to the house you should install at least two options for the lock. It is best to use a combination of lever and cylinder mechanisms.

If all the work is done correctly and accurately, a self-made door will turn out to be no worse than the production version.