how to make hood doors light tight?

[wonk]

I'm constructing a 'in wall' design hood for my new 120. I'm planning in constructing some standard cabentery faceframe style frame and panel doors that will set full inset (i.e. shaker style).

on a standard cabinet w/ full inset, there is like a 1/8" reveal around the door frame and faceframe. I like that nice reveal line, but obviously in this application it would have the negative of letting lots of distracting light out the slits.

I'm thinking about how I'll go about fixing it so that I can have a nice reveal line on the doors yet block light.

I've thought about putting a small 1/4 inch frame on the inside of the door. The door will hit it when closed and reduce to elimiate the light coming through the reveal slit.

However, to complicate matters, I want to use euro-style hinges on the faceframe. I don't like showing hinges, so having a style on the inside of the faceframe work interfere with the hinge.

I've also thought about those broom-like black brush door things --don't know what they are really called- that would be installed on the inside on the door. They would potentially block the light and not interefere with the door operation.

Anyone handled this problem successfully?

thanks

Kevin

 

[inlandreef]

how bout some weather stripping?

 

[boofer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6605202#post6605202 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by inlandreef
how bout some weather stripping?

Thats what I used on mine. The black 3/4".

 

[BrentN]

Weather stripping- that's what I'm going to use on my canopy.

 

[MayoBoy]

Rabbet the edges and use rare earth magnets to hold the doors in place - no hinges needed - just pop the door off and on as needed.

 

[BeanAnimal]

rare earth magnets may be hard to find...

sorry... just had to.

 

[EmergencyDpt]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6606647#post6606647 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BeanAnimal
rare earth magnets may be hard to find...

sorry... just had to.

LOL!

 

[dkh0331]

I also have the euro style hinges and put black landscaping material - the stuff you put on the ground, three layers thick and it blocks all my light creep.

HTH

David

 

[DrBDC]

On my stand what I did is I started with the main opening then behind that I had another layer of wood with the opening a little smaller (about 1 inch each side) so that when the doors were installed on that, they were flush with the outer layer. Then on one door it has a board installed on the back side which seals the light between the two. Did that make any sense?

 

[douggiestyle]

there is black out fabric (available from a frabric store) they use it as a liner for curtains. you could hang a peice on the frame behind the door as a curtain. you may use some velcro to make it easy to remove.