How to Make Framless Glass Cabinet Doors

It's not uncommon that a project you wanna do calls for a door that is gonna have glass in it. And in many cases, what you'll end up doing is making a wooden frame that those glass panels can fit into. Now, in some cases you might not want the wooden frame, and we can work around that. A couple of different solutions for this. Two different doors here. In the case of this door, it's got pivot hinges on it. The pivot hinges are held onto the glass just by friction. So, when I take these screws out, that hinge will slip right off of there. Additionally, the pull that's on this side slides on and off, that's just a friction-fit that's holding that on. So, this is very easy to do. You can go to a glass company once you know what size the panel has to be. Make sure you take the hinges with ya, so that they get the glass the right thickness so it will in fact sandwich inside there. And it'll be very easy to install these into your project by simply drilling a hole in the top and another one in the bottom. So that was, pivot hinges can do their thing. When you do that, you wanna make sure that you're letting 'em know that this is a standalone. In other words, it's not gonna be in a frame so that they finish these edges off for ya. If this had simply been cut, and I ran my hand across that edge, I'd probably get cut, because it leaves behind a pretty sharp corner. These edges have been finished off because the glass company knew that I wanted to make a door outta this. Now, in this case, it's a little bit more complex, but still, pretty cool. This glass panel door uses European-style hinges. So, you're probably already used to looking at European-style hinges, and this is very, very similar. We've got a cup, then we've got the hinge mechanism itself with the mounting plate that's gonna go inside the cabinet. What happens here is that the cup has to penetrate through the glass. This is the one that it's set up for here. So we bore a hole in the glass, push the cup through, the other component comes from the backside. And then by running screws through, sandwich everything together, and that's what holds it on there. So in this case, what you'll need to do is, make sure ya find a glass company that can do this for ya, that can drill those holes. Not all of 'em can, it might take a few phone calls. Once again, we wanna make sure the edges are finished, because this isn't gonna be captured in a frame. So this hardware, pivot hinge is here, European hinge is here, specifically designed for glass doors, gives you another option to get glass doors on a project in a case where you don't want 'em held inside a wooden frame.