Make Your Own Closet Sliding Doors

How to build sliding closet doors step 1.

Make your own closet sliding doors.

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. This is an easy diy for anyone. You don t need an architect s plans to build a door you just need a drill or even less a screw driver. I wanted the wood running vertically and then have it framed out with 1 3 s.

To make the door we measured the closet opening and bought 2 1 8 s and 5 1 6 s to cover the opening. The back of the paneling is really ugly so you want to make sure you paint the front back of the door. 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.

Golden oak is a common stain for woodwork. I m very picky when it comes to closet doors i don t really like any of the options out there. Cut four 2x4s for the door frame and miter each corner to a 45 degree angle. Stapler screws drill acrylic paint to stain burlap also optional closet door hinges you can get similar ones here.

Measure the opening to your closet. Screw the paneling onto the frame and you re done. I used poplar wood because it is lightweight and more importantly cheap. To make 2 sliding doors with overlap of one edge find the centerline of your opening and draw a line.

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. With a dado blade on your table saw make a dado. Figure out how large you want your wood frame to be. Prior to screwing the frame on put your wood glue silicon all over the frame attach.

Our doors were 86 3 4 and the length. Flush doors do not have any raised sections and are completely flat. Now you have a door that you can hang onto your existing closet door way. 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.

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