Make Your Own Closet Sliding Doors

The structure will feel flimsy and wobbly but that s okay.

Make your own closet sliding doors.

This is an easy diy for anyone. I wanted the wood running vertically and then have it framed out with 1 3 s. Cut four 2x4s for the door frame and miter each corner to a 45 degree angle. With a dado blade on your table saw make a dado.

Choose a stain that will match your existing woodwork. Now you have a door that you can hang onto your existing closet door way. I m very picky when it comes to closet doors i don t really like any of the options out there. Figure out how large you want your wood frame to be.

Flush doors do not have any raised sections and are completely flat. Prior to screwing the frame on put your wood glue silicon all over the frame attach. 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. Today we are taking some standard interior doors and turning them into sliding closet doors.

Stapler screws drill acrylic paint to stain burlap also optional closet door hinges you can get similar ones here. I just used the width that the wood comes in for the bottom and i cut it in half for the vertical frame pieces. I used poplar wood because it is lightweight and more importantly cheap. Golden oak is a common stain for woodwork.

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. Our doors were 86 3 4 and the length. To make 2 sliding doors with overlap of one edge find the centerline of your opening and draw a line. Screw the paneling onto the frame and you re done.

You don t need an architect s plans to build a door you just need a drill or even less a screw driver. Measure the opening to your closet. 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. 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. The back of the paneling is really ugly so you want to make sure you paint the front back of the door.