How to Install Glass Cabinet Doors, Cont'd

5. Paint and glass:

• Before inserting the glass, they applied a coat of paint. Ron explained that it would be much easier to paint first rather than after the glass was in place.

• After allowing the paint to dry, Ron carefully dropped the glass into the frame.

• Ron used what he liked to call a keeper strip, which was a little strip of painted wood that set in over the glass to hold it in place.

• They attached the wood in place with very small brads that Ron attached using a brad pusher. On the end of the brad pusher was a magnet that held the small brad in place while Ron positioned it and then pushed it into the wood.

• Four keeper strips held in place with brads was all it took to hold the glass securely in place.
  

• After repeating the process on all four of the doors, all that remained was to install the hinges and hang the new doors on the cabinets.

RESULTS:

It was a long day, but in the end, Gina had the beautiful glass cabinet doors she had always imagined, a delightful reminder of this fun and rewarding experience. And Gina gave Ron something that he could also remember…an autographed copy of one of her books!