How To Trim Around Sliding Closet Doors

Adding trim to bi fold closet doors is an excellent way of making the door appear larger.

How to trim around sliding closet doors.

Choose a trim that suits your home and your design aesthetic. What is the molding around a door called. The family handyman senior editor travis larson will show you how to trim a door in about 10 minutes per side. Is the gold showing through.

It also gives our wall color a proper stopping point. Here are the steps i took for the sliding door trim. Thanks for those updates. Ideally the bottom of your door will have more length between the bottom panel and the bottom of the door than the distance between the top panel and the top of your door.

From what you mentioned above he paint is holding up well. The project will take a little longer the first time you do it but you ll be trimming out doors like a pro in no time. 2 questions how is the bottom track holding up with all the sliding back and forth of the doors i e. Just moved and have 2 massive gold mirrored closet doors.

I consider our house to be fairly transitional and i just wanted a simple clean style trim. If you wish to have closets that are painted white you either have to draw lines at the door or install trim as. How do you measure and trim a door trim. Look at your new door assess which end s you want to trim.

How to trim the new closet door with a dremel ultra saw. Door trim should be mitered at a 45 degree angle at the top. Without this door trim our wall color has to wrap around and go inside the closet. So you would measure form the floor to the top of the door and then make a mark on the trim piece and set the miter saw at 45 degrees.

I decided on doing a 1 6 all the way around and a 1 2 capped around that. If you have sliding closet doors there is a chance that they are simply set into the wall with no trim around them at all. You then measure across the top of the door jamb.