Steps to make Sliding Glass Doors Seem like French Doors

Originating in Italy at the end of the Renaissance period, French doors can add a designer-savvy look to any space. They were originally used because massive windows that come to the floor, opening on to small balconies. A French door typically consists of panes of glass segregated by vertical and side to side framing materials. You can change an existing sliding glass door into a French door act without the difficulty and expenditure of using separate window panes.

Measure the horizontal and straight lengths of each side of glass in your sliding cup doors. Using a window lite size of 9 inches high by 12 inches wide like a standard, divide the size of the glass by doze to determine the number of horizontal windows panes. Divide the up and down length by 9 to look for the number of vertical window glass. Add any remainder similarly among your predetermined windowpane panes, slightly adjusting the scale.

Measure the width and entire first row of home window panes, starting at the bottom from the glass. Use a level to make sure even rows. Draw a plan for each window pane around the sliding glass doors utilizing a soft pencil.

Cover the ground with a plastic drop fabric.

Paint the wooden dowels with a paintbrush in white colored, black or a coordinating cut color of paint. Use a semigloss paint finish for a gleaming look. Allow the painted dowels to dry for 30 minutes and apply a second coat of paint, allowing another half an hour drying time. Apply another coat of paint and permit 30 more minutes of drying.

Cut the dowels into predetermined lengths with an utility knife, producing clean cuts.

Apply the glue to the 1/8 in . side of one of the short dowels and align this vertically on the glass over the pencil line that is the nearest to the left side of the a glass. Press the dowel on the glass and recording securely with painter's video tape. Work your way across the goblet, applying each vertical dowel along the bottom row.

Apply the glue to the 1/8 inch side of one in the longer dowels and line up it horizontally on the wine glass over the pencil line that connects the vertical dowel that is the closest to the left part of the glass with the remaining edge of the glass. Press the dowel onto the glass and tape safely with painter's tape. Function your way across the glass making use of each horizontal dowel, creating your first row of completed window panes. Visit:Eclisse Germany