Abstract: A method of making a veneered door with a raised central panel that is elongated and vertically oriented in which only three pieces need to be assembled. A suitable wood or wood-like stock is machined to form first and second elongated, generally rectangular substrates and then a flexible veneer with a simulated or real wood grain is affixed to each of these substrates. In the finished door, the grain of the veneer applied to the first substrate and to the second substrate runs, respectively, generally parallel to and generally perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the central panel. At least one single, unitary piece defining the central panel and two vertically-oriented framing members is fabricated from the veneered first substrate.