darkemeralds. The punch list: sliding doors (Reply)

I'm slowly getting caught up with everyone on my reading lists--hello, everyone!--and it's been lovely, reading what people have been thinking and doing in the last couple of months, and having some online conversations again. I'm about a third of the way through my backlog and am committed to catching up and returning to daily reading, commenting and posting this week.

The punch list on my bedroom project still has about eight items on it. I finished one of them today.

I IKEA-hacked my new headboard out of kitchen cabinets, and I had to invent a way to close them. Sliding doors seemed like the the most efficient solution.

TAP Plastics, a local store within an easy bike-ride, cut the doors to size out of extruded acrylic sheet (aka plexiglass) and drilled the finger-holes. Today I back-painted them to match the wall stencil.

The doors, stenciled on the back (the blue is a protective film on the front):
Four rectangles of plexiglass, stenciled with the birch tree design

Four rectangles of plexiglass, stenciled with the birch tree design

With back-painting, the design goes on first, and the background goes on afterwards. Here's the stenciled side with its white background spray-painted on:
the four plexiglass sliding doors spray-painted white on the back side

the four plexiglass sliding doors spray-painted white on the back side

Flip them over, remove the protective film, and voilà! Stencil-under-glass. Here are the finished doors in place:
The finished headboard doors in place, with the interference blue stencil showing through the clear surfaces