How To Trim Around Sliding Closet Doors

The family handyman senior editor travis larson will show you how to trim a door in about 10 minutes per side.

How to trim around sliding closet doors.

Look at your new door assess which end s you want to trim. Here are the steps i took for the sliding door trim. I decided on doing a 1 6 all the way around and a 1 2 capped around that. 2 questions how is the bottom track holding up with all the sliding back and forth of the doors i e.

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. It also gives our wall color a proper stopping point. 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. How do you measure and trim a door trim.

Just moved and have 2 massive gold mirrored closet doors. 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. Is the gold showing through. I consider our house to be fairly transitional and i just wanted a simple clean style trim.

The base molding. 1 remove the baseboard where the door trim will be. If you wish to have closets that are painted white you either have to draw lines at the door or install trim as. Adding trim to bi fold closet doors is an excellent way of making the door appear larger.

Choose a trim that suits your home and your design aesthetic. Without this door trim our wall color has to wrap around and go inside the closet. What is the molding around a door called. Door trim should be mitered at a 45 degree angle at the top.

Thanks for those updates. You then measure across the top of the door jamb. 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.