Diy Hidden Sliding Door

Check out these different ways to create your own secret doors.

Diy hidden sliding door.

Basically you attach the pivot hardware join the two sides of the door with a piano hinge stand the door up put the valance on top with 1 4 spacers mark the drill hole locations for the lag bolts remove the valance drill the holes then replace the valance and lag bolt it into place. Hanging clothing inside will hide the opening beyond. This could be a door to your under staircase area in a hallway off the living room or in your kitchen. So when there comes a day that we sell our home and the new owners want a formal living room.

Prop the door open use a level to check for plumb and screw the spring hardware to the floor with 1 inch wood screws. Using a bookcase for cover is the most popular method but there are different styles and difficulties when it comes to the design. Available in motorized version with opening driven by a low voltage motor and flush to wall push button panel or in manual version with flush fitting handle system. I don t know about you but i will never outgrow my child like desire to have secret passages and hidden rooms in my house.

Once you choose the door you want to hide choose from these ideas on how you want to hide it. The one thing that was important to me was to make this wall easily removable. If bookshelves are too overdone in your opinion check out the last two doors that are very well hidden and pretty unique. Screw the hardware in place.

Drop a plumb bob from the pin hole in the socket and mark the floor. Look for a door that you want to hide. Then build out your camouflage to conceal the door. The sliding wall and the secret room post 2.

An exclusive patented system that offers an innovative and elegant solution to the classic sliding doors. The sliding wall and the secret room post 1. Engineering a sliding wall took some time to figure out. The armoire will appear to be just what it is and can still be used as such.

As far as they concerned it is just a large painting on a wall nothing more nothing less. While the other doors are made to look like a wall a cabinet or a bookshelf this hidden door is basically an attached painting used as a door. Position the door slipping the pin into the socket and centering the spring hardware on the mark. Cut a door size portion out of the back of the piece of furniture and screw the remaining back to the existing door opening leading to the secret room.