How To Make Wood Sliding Closet Doors

Choose a stain that will match your existing woodwork.

How to make wood sliding closet doors.

How to build sliding closet doors step 1. Measure the opening to your closet. Golden oak is a common stain for woodwork. Apply wood glue on all top surfaces of the pieces of both your inner and outer frames.

I didn t have to cut any of these pieces but if your opening is not 8ft you will need to measure and cut accordingly. Place the plywood on top of the frame apply wood glue and secure it with screws once it s aligned. With a dado blade on your table saw make a dado. The first thing i did was layout my 5 pieces of 1 6 boards side by side butted up against each other.

Stapler screws drill acrylic paint to stain burlap also optional closet door hinges you can get similar ones here. Our doors were 86 3 4 and the length. Attach the plywood sheet to the back of the door. And that wasn t even the real wood ones but the fake wood looking closet doors and that s just outrageous to me there is no way in heck i was going to pay that kind of money for closet 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. Flush doors do not have any raised sections and are completely flat. I priced out bi fold closet doors for this whole house a few months ago and it was just shy of 1 000. Cut four 2x4s for the door frame and miter each corner to a 45 degree angle.

Flip the door so that the newly attached plywood side faces down.