Make Your Own Closet Sliding Doors

If you don t have an existing soffit in your room on which to hang your doors you can build one by connecting two.

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

Measure the opening to your closet. Cut four 2x4s for the door frame and miter each corner to a 45 degree angle. I m very picky when it comes to closet doors i don t really like any of the options out there. How to build sliding closet doors step 1.

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. Today we are taking some standard interior doors and turning them into sliding closet doors. Now you have a door that you can hang onto your existing closet door way.

Choose a stain that will match your existing woodwork. Screw the paneling onto the frame and you re done. Polyurethane is the clear. I wanted the wood running vertically and then have it framed out with 1 3 s.

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. I just used the width that the wood comes in for the bottom and i cut it in half for the vertical frame pieces. The back of the paneling is really ugly so you want to make sure you paint the front back of the door.

You don t need an architect s plans to build a door you just need a drill or even less a screw driver. 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 structure will feel flimsy and wobbly but that s okay. 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.

I used poplar wood because it is lightweight and more importantly cheap. Figure out how large you want your wood frame to be.