How To Make Your Own Closet Doors

To make 2 sliding doors with overlap of one edge find the centerline of your opening and draw a line.

How to make your own closet doors.

Pick your choice of paint and roll brush it on. These fabric covered mirror closet doors. Screw the paneling onto the frame and you re done. Transform your coat closet brighten up your hallway with cottage style doors by cutting your own frame from pine and repainting.

I m very picky when it comes to closet doors i don t really like any of the options out there. Here s what i came up with. Push the doors to the other side of the closet and double check that they are square. Build your own inexpensive closet doors.

Try making your own door. A simple closet door can be put together from a couple of sheets of luan that s very thin inch plywood and some pieces of 2 by 2 pine or fir. Now you have a door that you can hang onto your existing closet door way. I used poplar wood because it is lightweight and more importantly cheap.

Take the width of your closet door opening and divide in into 4. I started with cutting my 2x2s to size and then laying them out flat and screwing them together before adding my hinges. Push doors to one side and adjust the roller hangers to make them square with the side of the closet. It s as simple as picking up a 4 ft 1 2 m x 8 ft 2 4 m sheet of 1 2 in 1 3 cm plywood and cutting it to correct dimensions.

No i would not of done this normally but it is very wi. Prior to screwing the frame on put your wood glue silicon all over the frame attach. I just used the width that the wood comes in for the bottom and i cut it in half for the vertical frame pieces. Figure out how large you want your wood frame to be.

These pretty cottage styled doors. 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. The door needs to be lightweight so that it can swing easily back and forth. These materials are fairly easy to come by and they are attractive as well.

Today we are taking some standard interior doors and turning them into sliding closet doors. I decided to hang the doors immediately after assembly and before paint. If you like you can use your scrap plywood to cut stiles a center panel or other accents to give your handcrafted door a little extra visual appeal. The finished dimensions for each door needed to be 78 height and 17 width.

This is the most time consuming part of the project.