How To Hide Door Hinges

How to install hidden door hinges.

How to hide door hinges.

You can get creative in how your door opens by installing a latch on the backside that s connected to a cable. This video sponsored by sugatsune hardware https su. In this video matt jordan will show you a super hidden room behind a locked keypad in a shiplap wall. With the new wrap around hinge a door in the wall has never been easier or more stealthy.

Take the standard door out. Turn it one way for the door and one way. 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. 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.

Since a hinge is a bulky component you must hide the bulk of the part within the cabinet using a special drill bit. Custom service hardware hidden door hinges these hinges can support up to 500 lb making them especially useful for a fully loaded bookcase door. Measure the location of the screw holes on the hinge. Insert a center punch into a hole about 2 inches up from the corner.

Oil rubbed bronze 20 minute fire rated invisible hinge. Step 1 open the cabinet door and use a phillips screwdriver to remove the screws from the current hinges. The hinge called the soss 518 wide throw hinge can literally wrap around molding to completely hide the reveal line. There will be an arrow indicating the hole.

Thread the cable through the bookshelf and attach it to a woodblock. Cover the woodblock with a book cover and mount it to the shelf on a hinge. Then when you tilt that book forward it pulls the cable which opens the latch. Place the hinge template which is a small reversible rectangular plate on the corner of the door.

Hide the entire opening within the panels and molding to create a seamless paneled wall.