… is where we’d like our stuff to be.
We live in a 1959 house, and I believe all the closets have the original metal bifold doors.
I have always hated bifold doors. We had them in the house I grew up in, and they never, ever, EVER worked right. They always came off the track, or got jammed, or fell out of the frame completely.
I hate bifold doors. And the ones in our current house are no exception.
Basically, if I have a closet with bifold doors, it simply won’t get used for everyday storage. Anything put in there is likely to stay in there, because I haven’t the gumption to try to open the door, get it out, and close them again because of the sheer volume of effort and cursing involved. I’m more likely to go out and buy a new whatever-it-was. Which is probably why we have three camcorder tripods and one camcorder.
One of the laundry room doors broke completely a while back, and I replaced it with the one from our bedroom closet. I like this scenario, because now I can use the closet. But someday, I’m going to have to replace it.
The point of this rant, aside from expressing my hatred of bifold doors1, is to ask if anyone knows of a good place to get odd-size closet doors, either online or off. We’ve been to Lowes, and they do not have 93″ high closet doors. They can’t even special order them; They’re not in their catalog. The best the man could suggest was to go to a lumber yard and have some custom made, which we may yet try.
All my websearches have turned up are high-end custom-carved hardwood doors or other expensive-as-hell options. We just need some 93″ high, hollow, wood, cheap-o doors of the non-bifold variety, of various widths.
Alternatively, I wouldn’t mind holographic doors, or perhaps force fields.
1which is intense, I assure you.
Try taking a little visit out to Atlanta Salvage on Howell Mill Rd. I’m always finding odd things in there.
I know that joint… I always drove by it when we lived downtown.
I always knew if I needed a used toilet, that would be the place I’d check first, ’cause they got ’em right out on the lawn.
I don’t think I’d ever want to install a used toilet. It’s stupid, I know, but I’d be thinking, “If the toilet wasn’t good for someone else, there’s no guarantee that it would be good for me.” Maybe it was a bad crapper, and no one wants a bad crapper. Besides, who wants to test drive a toilet when it’s parked right outside where anyone can see you.
When I lived in apartments, the first thing I did when I moved in was remove all of those doors from the closets I would use, and stash them in the back of the closet. Opened up the rooms nicely.
I’m all about it, but has a thing about wanting our stuff hidden.
I say, no one would mind the dead bodies we have stored in there, but you can’t reason with women.
How about a nice beaded curtain?
Where is that “ban from commenting” button…
If you don’t go the salvage route…
Hey– we installed a closet unit from Ikea– including the floor to ceiling doors, which are sold separately. (They are 92 or 93– the website would tell you.) They had several options– different designs, finishes, and styles, including hinged doors and sliding doors. It’s wunnderful. We had decently sized closets with narrow doors– go figure that one.
Re: If you don’t go the salvage route…
IKEA? Is there anything they can’t do?
I shall try them. I can’t believe I didn’t think to look.
Ikea
I can’t think of anything.
They have a nice display with various closet doors in use, and then I think they had a place where you could look at all the veneers. Yep, we spent a lot of time in the closet department.
Open Up!
My suggestion is to go ahead and think outside the closet.
There are some door companies in atlanta who would be glad to make you some, but at a price. With the bifold at that height, you may have to think sliding to replace them. That’s not a cheap option, though we are happy with the aforementioned IKEA solution. I would google sliding closet doors and see what you get.
Re: Open Up!
IKEA. Sliding doors. Check.
Re: Open Up!
Wow– now I’m laughing at the dead. I just noticed your icon, amosearle.