DIY Homestead Glass Pantry Door-$17!

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use a up cycle a door and make it an awesome addition to your home.

We picked up the door from the Habitat Restore. Originally priced at $65, it was up on sale and we got it for $17. It's a beautiful glass door, absolutely worth its price, and perfect for our project. If you want to get a pantry door with 'Pantry' written on it, you can end up shelling out anywhere up to $600!

Our plan is to resize the door, get a customized decal on it and get ourselves a new pantry door. Let's see how...

1. A glass door from Habitat Restore
2. Regular woodworking tools:

• Drill
• Saw
• Square
• Measuring tape
• Screws

3. Cricut supplies

• Cricut machine
• Vinyl
• Transfer tape
• Scraper

First, we took the door down. Then we checked if there was a size difference between the door that we had on and the new door that we were planning on installing. Turned out that the new door was narrower and so we needed to build the frame up.

We built a frame to exact size. But, you need to be very sure. So, we used just one single screw to temporarily hold it in place. We needed to do that to get all other measurements right.

We put the door in place and checked for alignment issues. The door needed a little planning on the
edges. We used the router to make inserts for the hinges. The hinges were screwed into the door.

Holding the door against the frame, we marked the spots where the hinges would be screwed into the frame.

To make inserts, we removed the frame. Then using a router, we made inserts for the hinges.

Next we fixed the frame using screws and then fixed the door to the frame.

We stained the wooden part of the door.

Using the Cricut machine, cut and weed out a design you like. Since we live on a homestead, our pantry door has our homestead theme logo. Using some transfer tape and a scrapper, we got the design onto the transfer tape. Next, we transferred the design onto the glass door using the same tape. We make sure that all the bubbles were out of the design, and then carefully peeled back the tape. We got our design onto the front of the door, because we have plans to give the door a frosted look, for which we will need the back all clear of any designs. If and when we do that, we’ll cover it in another post and share it with you.

This is what a $17 door plus a custom logo can do to your home. It was totally worth the effort and we absolutely enjoyed it!