Doors for a do-it-yourself wardrobe, instructions with recommendations

Functional and beautiful furniture is the key to comfort and coziness in every home, so you should carefully approach the selection of such interior items. But what if there is no suitable cabinet design or size in the store? Then the assembly of the closet can be carried out independently. But for this you should learn how to make doors for the wardrobe with your own hands, and then install them.

Materials and Sizes

Closet design wardrobe is a system, the acquisition of which will make it possible to successfully plan the space of a room, emphasize the features of the interior, and solve the issue of storing personal items. As soon as such furniture appeared on the domestic furniture market, buyers immediately fell in love with it for a huge number of advantages.

Many do not dare to assemble the cabinet on their own, but in fact it is not so difficult if you prepare and divide the work into stages. You should start with the procurement of the necessary materials, the volume of which depends on the chosen size of the structure. Therefore, the first thing to decide: what material to apply and what size the structure will be.

To create coupe furniture, the following materials are used:

Chipboard - refers to the category of common and affordable materials for the manufacture of doors for wardrobes. Particleboard is diverse in color, practical, easy to cut. If you decide to assemble a sliding door wardrobe with your own hands without experience in such matters, opt for chipboard;
MDF is more expensive than chipboard material, but it is characterized by higher performance characteristics. MDF is afraid of moisture, under the influence of which the film may lag behind the base, which will significantly worsen the appearance of the furniture. But overall, the wardrobe 2 doors of MDF looks very decent;
solid wood is a durable, incredibly beautiful, wear-resistant option. But it costs a lot, and only an experienced furniture master can work with natural wood. If you are a beginner, it is better to choose a simpler material to work with - chipboard or MDF.

The dimensions of a particular cabinet are selected for the room in which it is planned to be installed. Take a look around and take measurements to understand what length, width and height of the furniture will be most successful. The height of such furniture may vary.

Dimensions	Values
Height	from 1500 to 2400 cm
Depth	from 60 to 85 cm
Width	from 1000 to 2500 cm

Custom size models are made to order or independently. Experts insist that in small rooms, the closet must be made as tall as possible. This will accommodate the maximum number of things.

Facade Options

Drawing and detail

Today, sliding wardrobes are popular among residents of small-sized city apartments and owners of spacious country cottages, because they have high functionality, practicality, serve for a long time, without breaking, they retain their external attractiveness for a long time. You can enter such an interior item in almost any size, style room. And to spend the minimum amount of money on it, make furniture yourself. How to make doors for a sliding wardrobe and what will be required for the beginning of assembly of doors of a sliding wardrobe? Drawings and details of the future construction indicating where this or that fastening will be performed will significantly speed up the work.

Scheme

Drawing

Parts preparation

To save money, many people are interested in whether it is possible to do without the help of experienced furniture makers and how to make your own wardrobe doors. To begin with, the preparation of installed parts is carried out. After the most relevant material has been selected (particleboard, MDF or natural wood), the procurement of accessories has been completed, you can proceed to work. You will need to create a reliable frame from pre-prepared parts:

two side walls;
cap;
bottom.

Inside the structure, shelves and storage systems will subsequently be mounted.

A sheet of selected material is cut using special equipment that cuts out the described details of the future cabinet with high accuracy. If there are no special tools for this, you can order cutting of material from professionals. After cutting, the details are processed, covered with end plates to give them greater aesthetics. Next, we will tell you how to assemble doors and get a full-fledged furniture item with a minimum of costs.

Casement without filling

Profiles can be different, because of which it is necessary to measure individually

Assembly

When the details of the future design are prepared, assembly can begin. How to assemble a cabinet without errors? For this, a detailed assembly diagram for the assembly and installation of the shutters on the sliding wardrobe is created. Then, using a drill, you need to organize holes in the sides, roof and base. Its individual parts are connected into a single frame using special fasteners. To increase the maximum level of permissible load on the cabinet, the joints of the base and the top cover with the sidewalls of the structure are reinforced with special metal corners. The back of the furniture is covered with a thin sheet of chipboard, and supports are attached to the base.

It also requires pin holes in the side walls of the furniture. This is required for subsequent installation of shelves inside the product. If necessary, storage systems of a certain kind of things are mounted inside the structure: vertical rails with hangers, scrubs and the like. If the assembly phase is completed, proceed to the most difficult. It is the installation of doors that will be the most responsible process in all work.

Assembly diagram

Installation of profiles and frames

If you have completed the assembly of the doors of the sliding wardrobe, you can proceed to the installation of profiles and structural frames along which the sliding sheets will move. However, a prerequisite is to set the door leaf exactly in level, otherwise there will be problems during the subsequent operation of the sliding wardrobe, and the level of comfort for the user will be low.

Having measured the length of the cabinet from the inside, using a hacksaw for metal, cut a profile of a similar size and fix it on the top and bottom cover with a screwdriver and self-tapping screws.

To prevent damage to the profiles, during the organization of holes, experts recommend using any convenient support. For example, you can use a table or chair for this purpose. And the holes made should be carefully sanded with sanding paper. The holes should be organized on the profile with a pitch of 50 mm, this rule should not be violated so that there are no problems during the operation of the structure in the future.

For reliable fixation of the lower profile, it is worth organizing similar holes for screws, but you should not rush to fasten the guide inside the structure. It is important to choose the place of its fastening. It is shifted into the cabinet by 20 mm, as the depth of the furniture will decrease by the width of the compartment doors. Sometimes it happens that the doors are set too deep. This spoils the appearance of the furniture, reduces its aesthetic qualities and comfort.

You will also need to mount the latches so that the doors stop in the closed position and a gap with a sidewall does not form. The stopper is installed in the groove of the lower rail. To mount the latch in the required place, the compartment doors are tightly closed, after which the center of the wheel is marked on the lower rail. A stopper is inserted here, which is easy to move with a flat screwdriver.

A silicone sealant is used to install the mirror in the profile

The mirror is inserted into the profile frame

Three holes are made in vertical longitudinal guides

Profile Drilling

The frames are fastened together by self-tapping screws

Fasteners of the lower profile are simultaneously fasteners for the lower rollers

Roller mount

The guides for the door leaf are fastened with self-tapping screws with press washers

Door fastening

Next, we will describe in detail how the installation of the door of the wardrobe is done by yourself. The order of the phased assembly of doors and correctly selected tools are largely determined by the type of door being manufactured and the specifics of its fasteners on the furniture body. It can be one of two models:

hanging;
rail.

Hanging

Roller

Outboard

If you have decided to make hinged doors, then do-it-yourself experts recommend installing doors on a sliding door wardrobe with a study of the specifics of working with such systems. The 2-door cabinet with hanging canvases has a special compartment mechanism, which is not mounted inside the structure, but is superimposed on the facade. It consists of two guides, but the highest load falls on the upper rail. The hanging fastening of the sliding systems allows you to veil the ends and roofs of the side facades from the eyes behind the doors. As a result, the design after installing the cabinet doors looks incredibly concise, elegant, beautiful.

Hinged door

Rail

Do-it-yourself installation descriptions of rail structures differ from the descriptions of steps for suspension. The feature is that the rails are mounted inside the cabinet frame. The lower one should be hung a little with an offset inside the cabinet, since it will have the highest load.

On the canvas you need to hang the rollers, with the help of which it will move in the rail. Next, the canvas needs to be very carefully inserted alternately into the pre-installed guides. To do this, bring the upper part of the door into the guides, after which we put its lower part.

To check the doors for perfect evenness of installation vertically, you should use the alcohol level. If you perform the work carefully, the need for adjustment at a later time will disappear.

Experts insist that rail doors on the cabinet should not be placed at an angle, as this can provoke a deformation of the profile. Whatever design you choose, do not forget that limiters are required. Such a part must be attached to the cabinet door.

The video contains instructions for the phased implementation of the work by an experienced master, who will once again demonstrate how to put the doors on the sliding wardrobe. After reviewing it, you will know exactly how to install the door of the closet, and the instructions with the photo will help facilitate this process.