Doug71
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I'm making some doors for an outdoor kitchen area, they average about 500 wide x 600 high, some have slightly arched tops. They will just be a ledged and braced design in ex 25mm Oak, probably left unfinished. It's really just a BBQ and pizza oven area with a Belfast sink and slate worktops built out of clamp bricks.
I'm looking for inspiration for the door hinges. The original image the customer showed me had some black face fixed half butterfly style hinges but the image also showed bad black staining in the Oak which we want to avoid, plus the decent ones are about £25 a pair. I know we should really go for stainless steel but all the stainless ones I have seen look like they belong on a boat and won't really match the rustic look they are going for. My current thinking is just some 3" brass butts chopped in to the edge of the boards of the door as they will be about 22mm thick same as the leaf on the hinge but this just seems wrong although I'm sure it would work fine. Some proper galvanised (not BZP) 100mm T hinges might get approval but not sure if they would stain the Oak?
Anybody got any inspiration for me?
Thanks, Doug
I'm looking for inspiration for the door hinges. The original image the customer showed me had some black face fixed half butterfly style hinges but the image also showed bad black staining in the Oak which we want to avoid, plus the decent ones are about £25 a pair. I know we should really go for stainless steel but all the stainless ones I have seen look like they belong on a boat and won't really match the rustic look they are going for. My current thinking is just some 3" brass butts chopped in to the edge of the boards of the door as they will be about 22mm thick same as the leaf on the hinge but this just seems wrong although I'm sure it would work fine. Some proper galvanised (not BZP) 100mm T hinges might get approval but not sure if they would stain the Oak?
Anybody got any inspiration for me?
Thanks, Doug