How To Turn A Bifold Closet Door Into French Doors

When the door meets the magnet it catches and stays closed.

How to turn a bifold closet door into french doors.

How to turn a bi fold door into french doors 1. How to turn bi fold doors into french doors. I just pulled. Take your bi fold door out of the closet and off the track if it isn t already.

For converting bifolds into french doors you have two options 1st option remove the roller pin thingy pretty sure that is it s technical term. Once the roller was off the track i pulled out the roller. I also needed some scrap 1 3 wood that i had hanging around the basement. You can keep the doors so that they pivot on the already existing pins like this closet door makeover.

I kept the corners still intact because they will continue to hold the doors up. Again simple remedy convert them to french doors. The final step to convert bifold doors to french doors is to attach the metal plate to the door. Unscrew and remove the track and any other hardware that was supporting the door inside the closet.

Next i screwed the mending plates into each bi fold door. Granted i wanted to make sure that my doors were more secure and wouldn t be falling when my kids inevitable swing on the door using the knob as a handle. Depending on your closet you could attach the magnetic catch to the door and the metal plate inside the closet whatever works best for you. The first step was to get the roller out of the bi fold track.

Remove the door from the inside of the bi fold track. Some might ask why go through the trouble well after countless hip bruises from bumping the laundry basket into the door and a couple of pinched toddler fingers we needed to nix the doors or change them up. 3 inch mending braces you ll need 6 of these in total 2 magnetic catches. Here are the bifold doors to our laundry room that i made into french style doors.