How To Trim Around Sliding Closet Doors

Door trim should be mitered at a 45 degree angle at the top.

How to trim around sliding closet doors.

I consider our house to be fairly transitional and i just wanted a simple clean style trim. How do you measure and trim a door trim. The base molding. 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.

Is the gold showing through. What is the molding around a door called. Adding trim to bi fold closet doors is an excellent way of making the door appear larger. 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.

Without this door trim our wall color has to wrap around and go inside the closet. I decided on doing a 1 6 all the way around and a 1 2 capped around that. 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.

2 questions how is the bottom track holding up with all the sliding back and forth of the doors i e. Choose a trim that suits your home and your design aesthetic. It also gives our wall color a proper stopping point. 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.

If you wish to have closets that are painted white you either have to draw lines at the door or install trim as. Here are the steps i took for the sliding door trim. The trim around a door is also known as the casing and it adds some architectural interest to your room. From what you mentioned above he paint is holding up well.

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