How To Trim Out Sliding Closet Doors

Without this door trim our wall color has to wrap around and go inside the closet.

How to trim out sliding closet doors.

Measure the width of the wood trim. It also gives our wall color a proper stopping point. When the closet door is closed butted up to base trim i have a 1 2 gap. How to trim around sliding closet doors step 1.

Mark the amount you need to cut off the new door. Leave your wood trim in the room where it will be installed for at least two days. Apply painter s tape to the door lining the edge up along the cut line and keeping the tape on the good side of the cut. Prep the door cut the door 1 1 4 inches shorter than the distance from the floor to the track.

When installing trim on a closet door it s customary to leave a 1 4 inch reveal or shadow line between the door jamb and the trim. Score the top of the door with a utility knife. If i cut back the base trim back i have the ugly bottom of the sheet rock showing and nothing covering the carpet edge. You can clamp a straight edge in place to use as a fence or.

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. If you wish to have closets that are painted white you either have to draw lines at the door or install trim as. What is the proper way to trim this all out. I have sliding closet doors with 1 2 thick 3 1 2 high base trim going in and around the closet area.

1 measure across the top of the closet door jamb on the. The family handyman senior editor travis larson will show you how to trim a door in about 10 minutes per side. Adding trim to bi fold closet doors is an excellent way of making the door appear larger. This allows the wood to.

Measure each side of the opening around the edge of the sliding doors and add the width.