This beautiful door
is called
The Iris Garden Bedroom Door
It is a door from the garden into the bedroom
It is 30" x 80" x 1-3/4"
It has beveled glass and Seedy Reamy glass

Here is the completed Bedroom Door


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All of the Mahogany is vertical grain

and this Mahogany shows the ribbon figure in its' vertical grain

all of the glass is insulated

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All of the glass is art glass

We took many different photo's trying to get a shot that would show the bevels in the glass on this Beautiful Door.

Here are the reflection of the beveled glass and the Seedy Reamy glass


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This photo does show that these are beveled glass pieces.

The original drawing.



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These pieces are ready to be planed for the making of this Door.

The fitting of the door has begun.

Here I am laying out the start of the midrails


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The mullions are very short

Step by step

first the rebate


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then the champher

made and fitted

Fitting all the pieces in order to start the gluing process.


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Gluing up the door.

Here we are using many clamps on this door as we glue it up.

Cleaning out the corners on the door after we glue it up is a very important step that cannot be skipped.


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The door will lay here for 72 hours for the glue to cure.

Hand sanding of the door has begun.

Here the Jambs are being oiled. They will be oiled 4 times before they will be ready for the client.

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Many hours of sanding are given to each door.

And more hand sanding...............

Here we are boring for hinges.

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The door in branded before being oiled.

This door is ready to be oiled.

Look a that reach color that is brought out from oiling.


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All our doors are oiled under the Redwood Canopy.

Hanging the door after oiling where it will stand for 3 days before its next oiling.

Look at that shine!


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The door on its final oiling day.

The shine in this door is breath taking.

Marking for the stops.

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Here stops are being fitted.

This door had many stops.

The finished product, what a Beauty!


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