[tommymiller50]

I'm trying to take a 36" wall cabinet and mount 3 12" doors on it. Leftmost door will effectively be a cover panel as it will have shelving butting up to if from an adjoining wall (I mounted it using the regular hinges). Right door is normal.

So, issue is what to mount center door to?

My thought so far is to just use a chunk of 2x2 at the top and bottom to mount the hingest to (or a full vertical strip from top to bottom if not stong enough, but then I'd have to notch all the shelves). I'd just screw though the top and bottom to hold the 2x2 in place, and I could also secure to the left door if needed (since it doesn't need to move).

Any other ideas or experience? I'm guessing the hardest part will just be to get everything to line up right.

[NBeth]

The easy answer is to exchange the two remaining 12" wide doors for one 24 wide door and mount on the right as usual.

[tommymiller50]

That definitely would be the easiest way out of this corner (literally), but I really want to keep with the 12" for both design (have a row of 12" doors across the entire wall) and functionality (have had wide doors on upper cabinets before and always find them cumbersome).

[tommymiller50]

Well, tried the mod with 4" long 2x2 blocks at top and bottom and seems to work fine.

I used a "L" bracket and a few screws through the frame to secure each block. The back end of the hinge plate isn't very well supported, so next time I would move the blocks back a bit or use a 2x4 block instead, but the door operates smoothly and solidly.