Make Your Own Closet Sliding Doors

Flush doors do not have any raised sections and are completely flat.

Make your own closet sliding doors.

I used poplar wood because it is lightweight and more importantly cheap. Cut four 2x4s for the door frame and miter each corner to a 45 degree angle. To make the door we measured the closet opening and bought 2 1 8 s and 5 1 6 s to cover the opening. 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.

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 m very picky when it comes to closet doors i don t really like any of the options out there. Measure the opening to your closet. The structure will feel flimsy and wobbly but that s okay.

Today we are taking some standard interior doors and turning them into sliding closet doors. 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. Prior to screwing the frame on put your wood glue silicon all over the frame attach. Now you have a door that you can hang onto your existing closet door way.

Our doors were 86 3 4 and the length. 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. To make 2 sliding doors with overlap of one edge find the centerline of your opening and draw a line.

I wanted the wood running vertically and then have it framed out with 1 3 s. Golden oak is a common stain for woodwork. The back of the paneling is really ugly so you want to make sure you paint the front back of the door. Stapler screws drill acrylic paint to stain burlap also optional closet door hinges you can get similar ones here.

Figure out how large you want your wood frame to be. Polyurethane is the clear. You don t need an architect s plans to build a door you just need a drill or even less a screw driver. With a dado blade on your table saw make a dado.

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. 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.