How To Dress Up Sliding Closet Doors

Using a glossy paint makes it easier to clean the doors.

How to dress up sliding closet doors. It s easy too anyone can do it. If your bedroom still has the enormous sliding mirrored closet doors so popular in the 1980s it s time for an update. Overview for dressing up a hollow core door illustration by gregory nemec. I then removed the circular door handles.

Window treatments are a great way to add beauty and dress up your sliding glass doors. You don t have to remove the doors entirely. Instead of replacing the doors to make it less dull try using wallpaper or even several different pieces to cover the closet door. In her ongoing adventures of creating a home one project at a time christina maria repurposed the hollow core door in her kitchen in a truly unique way.

Thank you to the people over at my overlay s for designing the overlays for my mirrored closet door makeover. The first thing we did was my hubby took down the doors for me. Sliding glass door coverings options. Download and print the cut list.

Make it pop or blend by covering up the plain door. Cut list for dressing up a hollow core door. This is what i started with. It was one continuous space behind the two pairs of bifold doors but between the center divider and the space taken up by the bifold doors less than half of the closet was easily accessible.

The last step was to update our sliding closet doors. We gave them a whole new look. While they are a bit dated now they do help make a small room look bigger and they are a great way to check out your outfit from head to toe before leaving for work. Then i applied this wall covering primer to the doors.

I still have some ideas for the anne pattern. Sliding doors are great for smaller rooms where there is less space to accommodate doors that open out and away from the closet. Saturday cut and install the panel frames steps 2 11. Sunday hang the door and install the lockset step 12 13.

This project works best on single door closets or folding doors but avoid using this idea on sliding doors. Give your closet doors some dimensional interest with little more than paint and canvas stretchers or frames. There are many other advantages that the window treatments do offer. It s been several years now and this has held up amazingly the rest of the room has since changed you can see how the bedroom decorating has evolved since the.

I really loved the product and will definitely use it again. I recently painted my bedroom including painting white the stained trim around the windows. Like bifold doors these are installed on a track in the closet frame but the door shifts to the side inside the closet instead of folding open. But one thing you need to understand is that window treatments are not just limited to decorating your home.

My solution was to remove the bifold doors tear down the center partition and add new molding framing the top the storage cubbies to the left were. Sliding doors offer sleek functionality with a modern look.