Make Your Own Closet Sliding Doors

Figure out how large you want your wood frame to be.

Make your own closet sliding doors.

Prior to screwing the frame on put your wood glue silicon all over the frame attach. Screw the paneling onto the frame and you re done. The structure will feel flimsy and wobbly but that s okay. You don t need an architect s plans to build a door you just need a drill or even less a screw driver.

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. Choose a stain that will match your existing woodwork. Flush doors do not have any raised sections and are completely flat.

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. Polyurethane is the clear. Golden oak is a common stain for woodwork. 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. How to build sliding closet doors step 1. 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.

The back of the paneling is really ugly so you want to make sure you paint the front back of the door. 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. Today we are taking some standard interior doors and turning them into sliding closet doors.

I wanted the wood running vertically and then have it framed out with 1 3 s. 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. Cut four 2x4s for the door frame and miter each corner to a 45 degree angle.

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. Now you have a door that you can hang onto your existing closet door way.