Eichler Closet Doors

Round Two! More closet doors for our Eichler

Our kids’ rooms needed some love, too, so we went back to the drawing board to design take a different approach to the construction of the panels. In our earlier iterations, we built a single frame routing in one big piece of wallpapered fiber board. We also tried mounting the frame directly on top of the board instead of the routed inset.

Eichler Closet Door Design

We partnered with a local skilled carpenter, who fabricated the panels and finished the Douglas fir with a Rubios Monocoat. This time we built the panel similar to how a traditional door is built, framing three separate pieces of plywood which floats within the frame to eliminate warping with changing temperatures throughout the season. The door is stronger, and with the new design, are reversible if you want to use the wood-finished side of the door.

Grasscloth Wallpaper for Our Eichler Closet Doors

The wallpaper we chose was from Kenneth James in Lucena Gray. It has a beautiful sheen and great texture. We like the modern look versus the original burlap-style grasscloth, set into Zolatone-finished frame, (commonly used in boating applications for its texture and durability).

Below are some photos of this project. Please get in touch if you’d like help putting this together for your own home.

Eichler Closet Door Project Notes

The lumber used is a Douglas fir in 1x6. The boards were cut in half to make the sides and center frames to help with grain matching. These are not exact dimensional replicas of original doors, but were designed to make the best use of standard stock lumber sizes. The floating center substrate is a 1/8” plywood. The sliding door hardware was a standard kit from Lowes. The trim at the top was mounted with L-brackets.

Note: This is more of an illustration for dimensions and not to scale. The height will vary for your home and should be customized for each opening.