DIY Sliding Closet Door Hardware

Another project finished in our daughter’s bedroom makeover! This tiny room is taking a while to get done and adding projects (like this closet door) as we go along, doesn’t help get it done any faster. It is also taking a while because I have learned not to make rush decisions just to get things done. I need to take my time, search for the best deal and find the right pieces for the space. It may take me four times as long to make over a room, but in the long run, it is better. I wanted to add a sliding closet door to her room because the bifold doors took up too much space. Finding Sliding Closet Door Hardware can be tricky and expensive so today, I am going to show you how we made the door and the Sliding Closet Door Hardware we chose. 

Like I said, this closet “thing” was not even part of the plan for her room, but as we were getting things done, it needed to be added.

The picture below shows my daughter’s closet as we were hanging the metal slider on the ceiling. When she was teeny tiny, and her room was a “nursery”, I removed the 1960 bi-fold closet door from her closet (Don’t worry, I kept the doors in case we move and the new owners want the 60’s brought back in). Those bi-fold doors take up a lot of space in our tiny bedrooms and her little outfits looked so cute hanging in the closet so I didn’t miss having the door there.

Fast forward a few years, and as our daughter started getting bigger, I wanted to cover up the top part of her closet which is now used for storing clothes when the seasons change. How do we cover up the top half of the closet so that we can still get into it when we need to? A sliding door, of course!

So her “sliding closet door” started out as just a half-door that we made out of left over wood in the garage. The picture below is the best one I have to show you the “half-door”. This worked fine until we started this recent makeover.

Her outfits don’t look as cute hanging in the closet anymore. 😉

So, I needed a solution to the closet mayhem. Something that wasn’t going to take up prime real estate in her bedroom.

FINALLY! A proper sliding door in our home. {EEK!}

I have been swooning over all the sliding doors I have seen and have wanted to incorporate one in our home, but we just never had the right spot to have one. Now we do.

The door was easy to make. We actually had to go to Menards and pick out new wood for this project. I can’t remember the last time I had to buy new wood for a project??? We are always repurposing old wood from our “stash”, but the “stash” is dwindling and this project needed more wood than we had.

To make the door, we measured the closet opening and bought 2 – 1×8’s and 5 – 1×6’s to cover the opening. 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 wanted the wood running vertically and then have it framed out with 1×3’s.

Like this:

We added the board across the front to make the door more structurally sound. I like the look of it too.

We have brought in some fun colors to our daughter’s room with her painted bed and new bedding and the art gallery wall. To balance it all out, I stained the door the same color I used on her new dresser. Everything is starting to make sense and blend well together.

I love the door, but there was a little glitch in hanging it. The Sliding Closet Door Hardware we chose was from our local Menards store.  It is a simple metal beam that goes away in the grand scheme of things. (I have linked many sliding closet door hardware options at the end of this post.) The half-door we originally had up there never gave us a problem to hang it. This door is heavier and as we would get it up in the track, it looked crooked?? After taking the track apart, we found out that the ceiling isn’t perfectly straight and with the longer, bigger door, you could really notice it. UGH. After we figured out the problem, we made a few adjustments to the rollers on the door and then it worked out fine.

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There is a HUGE mess behind that door, but now you can’t see any of it! 🙂 I will tackle that mess as soon as we get a free minute from all the other projects in the works around here. (Never a dull minute).

{Since taking these pictures, we have added a black handle to the door.}

If you have ever thought about a sliding door in your home, go for it. The door was easy to make and if you don’t have crooked ceilings like we do, then hanging it should be a breeze as well.

Here are some beautiful options for sliding closet door hardware: 

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