You would insert the first as normal then use thin strips of wood i d say approximately 1 8.
Replace wooden door panel with glass.
Then remove the panel replace with glass and install trim to lock the glass into place.
You might find a few tiny nails where the panel meets the frame.
The glass broke and we changed out glass panes that were broken for fresh plexiglas that was lying around.
We go through taking the retaining trim off to.
Try to choose a new moulding that matches the old one.
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.
Remove the door from its frame.
If you have the tools it is actually pretty easy to make a double pane window.
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.
Put a new moulding on top of the glass panel.
Use a rubber mallet to carefully bang out.
You would simply need 2 panes of glass of the same size.
Measurements were the same aside from the hinge placement and i was recklessly confident that this would be cake.
Remove any fasteners in the corner of the panel with a small pry par.
What if i found an old paneled door and was able to replace one of the panels with a clouded glass.
Examine the back side of each door.
I found the perfect 2 paneled door for 75 at a salvage store up the road.
Unscrew the top hinge first and remove the lower hinge with an assistant holding the door in place.
How to replace wood door panels.
Insert the glass panel into the cut area carefully and press the glass onto the moulding that was not removed.
Score one for the powder room.
All the doors in our home are beautiful old paneled doors which got me thinking.
Nail the moulding to the door taking care not to damage the glass.
I would then route out the detail on the back of the paneled area allowing us to drop in a piece of glass and then fixing the glass with a bead or square wood trim stop.
My pipe dream was to replace the solid hollow door with something that echoed the architecture around the house a bit more.