Make Your Own Closet Sliding Doors

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Make your own closet sliding doors.

The back of the paneling is really ugly so you want to make sure you paint the front back of the door. Hubby cut a few inches off the board to get the right height and left about an inch or so on the top so he could put the rollers on the door. Prior to screwing the frame on put your wood glue silicon all over the frame attach. Golden oak is a common stain for woodwork.

Stapler screws drill acrylic paint to stain burlap also optional closet door hinges you can get similar ones here. The structure will feel flimsy and wobbly but that s okay. Wood stain optional burlap any fabric or you can even use thin plywood i used 5 1 2 yards of burlap i purchased my burlap at joanns. Cut four 2x4s for the door frame and miter each corner to a 45 degree angle.

I used poplar wood because it is lightweight and more importantly cheap. Choose a stain that will match your existing woodwork. I wanted the wood running vertically and then have it framed out with 1 3 s. I m very picky when it comes to closet doors i don t really like any of the options out there.

Today we are taking some standard interior doors and turning them into sliding closet doors. Figure out how large you want your wood frame to be. First you have the rolling closet doors that always cover half the closet half the time and are a bit of a nightmare to install hate em then you have the old fashioned kind of closet doors where its basically just two interior doors side by side that open out i like this idea but they re. Flush doors do not have any raised sections and are completely flat.

To make the door we measured the closet opening and bought 2 1 8 s and 5 1 6 s to cover the opening. How to build sliding closet doors step 1. This is an easy diy for anyone. With a dado blade on your table saw make a dado.

Measure the opening to your closet. If you don t have an existing soffit in your room on which to hang your doors you can build one by connecting two. Screw the paneling onto the frame and you re done. I just used the width that the wood comes in for the bottom and i cut it in half for the vertical frame pieces.

Our doors were 86 3 4 and the length. First make a wooden frame that is the same dimension as your masonite using the diagram above to assemble your 2 2 boards with one screw joining each board.