The doors are made from the same plywood that I used for the sides and back of the cabinet. I trimmed them all around with solid wood to hide the plywood edges, then just glued on the fake rails and stiles. This picture shows one of them about halfway done.
I thought about using some fancy Brusso brass leaf hinges for this project, but the only ones I could find seemed a little big and a little pricey. So instead made some the right size from some 1/8" aluminum plate for the leaves and some 1/4" aluminum rod for the pins.
I paid for a little bit of poor planning surrounding the hinges. First of all, it was no fun at all cutting the hinge mortises in the part of the cabinet that I had already put together. That would have been much easier if I had done it before assembling the front frame. The other problem was the stupid decision to mount the hinges in a little way from the outside edge of the doors. This made it somewhat challenging to actually hang the doors.
Normally you're supposed to 1) attach the assembled hinge to the cabinet, 2) slide the other leaf into the mortise on the door, and 3) install the screws into the door. But I couldn't do step #2 the way I mounted the hinges. So instead I had to screw the leaves to the cabinet and the door, then hold the door in place and then install the hinge pins. That wasn't a show stopper by any means, but I did spend a few minutes wishing I had a third arm.
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