Modern Closet Doors: Easy Choice To Update Your Home

Nowadays, updating the look of your bedroom or other areas in your home such as laundry, kitchen or pantry, does not mean overhauling your interior and spending lots of money. You can make a significant interior change by replacing your traditional closet door with modern closet doors.

As replacement, modern closet doors provide endless design ideas that will fit into your contemporary home décor. They come in numerous styles, designs, colors, materials and sizes that their residential or commercial applications are limitless. For example, you can use your closet door on your wardrobe or utility room door or as decorative divider.

Many online retailers, such as home depot and lowes, are offering various types of modern closet doors, including sliding, accordion, French, bifold or rice paper closet doors. Below are some leading closet door manufacturers and an overview of their offerings.

Dunbarton Corporation:

Dothan, Alabama-based Dunbarton Corporation has been manufacturing different closet door styles, such as bifold and sliding for several years now. Its Slimfold range of folding doors is constructed from sound-dampened steel and painted to achieve automotive standard. The folding doors come in raised panels or louvers. The Slimfold brand also carries steel closet doors with non-pinch design to prevent injury due to trapping of toes or fingers. The Slimfold steel doors are available as a 4-panel unit with widths of 4 feet, 5 feet and 6 feet and a 2-panel unit with width options of 2 feet, 2 feet and 6 inches or 3 feet.

The company also offers the Collegiate line for a locker room look. In addition, there are mirror closet doors in styles of frameless or framed bypass sliding or bifold. Finally, Dunbarton’s Markerdoor is ideal for children’s rooms. The pre-finished steel framed door features erasable, magnetic dry marker panels on which your children can draw.

The Sliding Door Company:

This Van Nuys, California-based company has been manufacturing room dividers and glass sliding closet doors. Wood or aluminum frames are the choices to have for sliding closet doors. For wood doors, you can opt for Wenge, Walnut or Maple with 5mm tempered safety glass as the standard use. Glass panel options are mirror, milky, frosted or clear. All are coated to resist fingerprints. If you want to be unique, you can choose panels that are solid wood-like as alternative. The floor tracks of these doors are designed in such a way to prevent tripping. Other offerings from Sliding Door are pocket doors, stationary doors, swing doors, office partitions, sliding room dividers and loft dividers.

Kestrel:

The company is one of the leading manufacturers of interior and exterior doors and shutters. Since 1989, Kestrel has been custom-building closet doors, folding screen room dividers and wood shutters in its Stowe, Pennsylvania factory.

Hardwood is the main material for Kestrel closet doors, including Spanish Cedar, Basswood and Mahogany. Pegged tenon joints and deep pocket mortise are used for greater durability while floating panels are added for contraction and expansion. Colonial, Traditional, recessed Philadelphia Federal and Shaker Flat are the available panel designs. The 3/8-inch thick louver blades come in widths of 3.5 inches, 1 and 7/8 inches and 2.5 inches, in both tapered and flat profiles.

All these closet door manufacturers have comprehensive websites that provide information that can help you choose the best closet door for you, including online catalogs, closet door colors, materials, specifications, care and maintenance.