Bi-fold doors are a great way to hide clutter, create separate rooms, and add to the decor of your home. Follow these instructions for quick easy installation.
Bi-fold doors are an ingenious way to hide clutter, create separate rooms, and add beauty to areas of your home. Bi-fold doors come in all sizes and can be hinged together or hung separately. One area of the house where you often see bi-fold doors is the laundry area. Many times the laundry room is directly off of the kitchen, but often, there's no doorway between the two rooms. This is an excellent opportunity to install bi-fold doors. If it's a narrow doorway, two of the doors should do, and track can be laid on the floor and above the doors for the bi-folds to slide. If it's a rather large doorway, two sets of two doors each can be hinged together. With this, as you part the two central doors, the 2 hinged doors slide across the track for opening. Adjustments may have to be made to the doors or the opening for an exact fit. Bi-fold doors are ideal for the laundry room, since they usually have slats that allow air and heat to travel in and out, but keep the contents of the room out of sight.
Another perfect place for bi-fold doors is the kitchen entryway. The doors should be short enough for the average person to see over them to prevent calamities. The doors can be hung so they swing, like saloon doors, or 2 doors can be hinged together so that both doors open or shut, from side to side, when you scoot one door across the track. Of course, if you have a very large kitchen entryway, you might need to use 4 doors - 2 sets of 2 hinged doors.
Closets with no doors are unattractive and seem to display your clutter to the world. Measure the closet openings for bi-fold doors, which are fairly easy to install. The tracking must be secured to the floor and above the doors, then the doors hinged and inserted into the tracking. For extra large closets, you might want to choose two or four sets of the hinged doors, depending upon the size of the opening. This is usually done by hinging 2 doors, sliding them into the tracks, then hinging 2 more doors and tracking them. If still more doors are needed, often a two-by-four or larger board is installed before beginning the installation of more door sets. The board serves as a "wall" between the two sets of closets. And, if you have no closet, bi-fold doors can be used to make an instant closet. Section off a corner, put up a wall on one side, then install the doors on one side. Similar to a closet, pantries are often door-less but this can be fixed by hanging bi-fold doors over the pantry opening. Bi-fold doors are also perfect for utility rooms, garbage areas in the kitchen, and even, in some instances, bathrooms.
If you have a very large room, such as a living room or den, you can use bi-fold doors in some interesting ways. To make two rooms out of one, lay the tracking completely across the room, then completely across the ceiling. Install the hardware and place the doors in the tracking. You suddenly have 2 rooms where there was only one. For corner rooms, tracking should be placed on one section of the floor, and then the other side should be enclosed with sheet rock or another wallboard to complete the room.
A unique idea for using bi-fold doors in an extraordinary manner is to hang one door on each side of a large window in your living room. Hooks and hangers can then be used to display plants on the doors for an unusual window treatment. Bi-fold doors are very easy to install, making it simple and fun to change rooms, add decor or install simply for their functionality.
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