I make a trip to the library once a week and on one of those recent trips
I stopped by Lowes and Home Depot to see what they had on offer for closet
doors. As I mentioned in my last closet post, I was hoping to find hollow core wood bypass doors, but alas, these apparently aren't popular nowadays. What both stores did have was a vast selection of
bifold doors.
My reluctance toward the bifold doors is because they need unhindered
space to open them. For two 36-inch width doors, that would be 18 inches of space out into the room. But space is a
premium feature in this room and I'm not sure I want to give it up for bifold
doors, especially against the outer wall, where I'd like to use the wall space. Lowes does carry sliding mirrored closet doors, but I really don't want
to look at myself that much. Home Depot offers barn door kits, but sheesh,
they are expensive.
The other problem with finding doors is that the closet opening is almost 79 inches wide. The
widest doors of 36 inches each would only cover 72 inches, and that would leave a gap of 7
inches.
The solution? Dan decided to make the doors. He made the sliding doors for the
chicken coop, old goat barn, new goat barn, and hay loft. The track is
available separately, so why not?
He knocked out two doors for the front room closet in
a couple of afternoons.
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| First of two barn style closet doors. |
So that's done and they're ready to install after the door track is installed.
There's still the question of how to finish them. At first I thought to paint them the same color that the walls will eventually be. But then we talked about staining them. That would certainly enhance the rustic look of the plywood, which would be perfect for the rustic farmhouse look I want in this room.
Anyway, that's done and I'm quite pleased with them.
