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Hi. I moved into an apartment with NO closets and comandeered an entire wall, which I fitted with closet fittings bought at the Home Depot. Result: great, big closet.

Then I had a carpenter come over and the cost for doors was outlandish. He recommended dry-walling the top of the wall so that he could put stock doors in.

Solution: I got some fabric and hung it from the ceiling on curtain rods for a total cost of about $50.

I'm sorry I don't have a better solution.

I did see something on this site about sliding doors, perhaps someone else will remember them.

Best of luck!

i used dyke's lumber. They have offices in mid-town and in NJ. Not inexpensive but good.

Check out Raydoor (raydoor.com) - not cheap, but they have some really nice work displayed on the website and are based in New York.

How about shoji screens? If you have a tidy closet you can put a few lights inside and have an interesting glow at night.

I'm trying to buy nice modern closet doors for my miami beach appartment and I want to do it as economicly sound as possible. Can anybody point me in any direction? Home depot doesnt have modern doors and i've been here a year with no doors on my closets. I'm looking for something with glass or fiber-glass with or with out wook. Tha looks nice yet not expensive. Please help.
angel miami beach

I was in a similar situation last winter when I bought my apartment. The doors and 40 years worth of paint on them must have been there from 1963 when the building was built. They were 8' tall and the widths were not standard.

I bought replacement doors from Home Depot from CDM. I got the basic MDF doors with the white, paint ready melamine finish. They are very basic and plain and were about $ 100.00 each. Very easy to replace or install.

The lead time was about 2 weeks.

If you go to HD, order the doors downstairs at the Pro Desk as opposed to the desk upstairs on the mezannine. The expeditor at the pro desk really knows what he is doing.

I have a laundry room off my den with a 5 foot opening give or take. I need to close it off with closet doors that are paintable. The pVC multifold doors would be great because they don't take up alot of room but they aren't paintable. Any other ideas? I need them to open left to right due to a book case on the left

You can also try modernus.com (http://www.modernus.com). They have a large variety of styles, they are fully custom, and they use a factory direct model. They doors are beautiful, made in Italy, and they get delivered directly to your job site.
That is what I used, after doing a lot of research online.

What did you pay for modernus doors? I am trying to get a sense of pricing.

I am looking for bifold doors which have clean lines and durable.

Please give me a sense of the modernus pricing and also raydoor for the person who posted on that.

Thanks!

Hi there,

I have a similar issue. We recently purchased a condo with eight, yes eight, ugly 1970s-style sliding doors. They range in size from 21/2 feet by 8' to 4'X8'. The Pax doors at Ikea fit perfectly but with a $400 price tag, costly.

I have a couple ideas on how to rehab them...wall papering, insert laminate plastic, replace insides with clear/opaque plastic? But having a hard time finding plastic laminate and opaque plastic that can be custom cut.

Any ideas?

Hi,
I had a similar problem with my previous home, the doors were functional ....just not very nice to look at. I had panels made by a company that I glued over the existing door and it worked out great ! It was kind of like a refacing.
Try www.cuttingedgedoors.com

I used a wavy panel done with a kind of mdf board and had it painted to match the room, it ended up being one of the features that sold the home.... go figure.

Good Luck,
Mike A