Trim Around Bifold Closet Doors

How to add trim to plain bifold doors.

Trim around bifold closet doors.

Every detail is important to the value and appearance of your home. Leaving a wooden edge around the mirror can give your closet doors a modern and framed finished look. Mitter your edges using a miter saw or a by hand using a miter box cheaply available at any hardware store and nail in your trim. A doorway without trim will look unfinished and create an impression that the house is.

May 21 2013 keeping your home stylish while raising a family. My master bedroom closet had bifold doors that were plain and outdated. Easily install trim around a bifold door frame to hide the metal track and complete the look. How to install molding for a bifold door.

As part of my hallway refresh i transformed my bifold linen closet door to look like a barn door for 15 in this diy bifold barn door tutorial. It also gives our wall color a proper stopping point. Add trim around the perimeter of these closet doors so i can officially cross this area off our home s to do list. This piece needs to be ripped on a table saw to match the width of the sheetrock from the corner to the top slider.

Doorstop molding isn t required on bifold closet doors for them to work properly but for the doors to appear finished doorstop molding can. If you wish to have closets that are painted white you either have to draw lines at the door or install trim as. The size of the finished opening was 35 wide by 82 tall. Without this door trim our wall color has to wrap around and go inside the closet.

While you can use closet doors that are entirely mirror this can look dated. To make bifold doors look right try adding trim on top of the mirror. Step 1 the first thing i did was order new flat panel doors. Install the inner casing.

When i decided to replace all the doors in the room i thought that. How to install doorstop molding on bifold closet doors. Adding decorative trim to bi fold doors to turn them into something more custom is nothing new we used inspiration from room for tuesday and diy playbook and project palermo recently turned her doors inside out to do the same and we were determined to make this work for the closet in our scary room too it s a great solution to create a higher end look from an everyday item. This will purposefully break up the mirrors and make the skinny width look less awkward.

How to install trim on bi fold closet doors step 1. For this post i will show you how i added trim around the bifold door frame to finish out the door.