MDF or PLYWood for wardrobe doors? help pls!

[Bushmiller]

OK. I worked out what was wrong with the stupid camera, but I don't want to talk about it.

Another wardrobe issue is that the tall doors are not really that practical quite apart from the difficulty of obtains the materiuals. The doors for the wardrobe in the previous house were tall (2500mm from memory as the ceilings were 9'), but I had them made by James Glass.

I went another way for the present house because the ceilings are 10'. I put small doors at the top. The panelled wardrobe doors replicate the style of doors in the house, which was built in the 1920s.

As the wardrobe is quite wide, I put in place a central wall to support the top cupboards. The internal shelf units were bought as I find the making of such things tedious and can hardly buy the materials for the cost of the complete unit.

The last picture shows a smaller wardrobe in another room. Still two boards laminated, but made in a different style.

I have made wardrobe with the doors hangings from above, but I prefer them on runners. They seem to be more satisfactory, but that is a subjective view.

There is still some painting of the room to be completed so apologies for the interim state.

Regards
Paul

[Debmanks]

Hi 1234,

I'm thinking of doing the same (18mm mdf doors on wheels) did you ever make them and did they work out okay?
Thanks
Debbie

[Bushmiller]

Hello Debbie and welcome to the forums.

Unfortunately the Forums experienced a glitch during a reformatting exercise a while back and the pictures posted were all lost.

These two threads may give you some idea of making wardrobe doors from two sheets of mdf. I really don't think a single sheet will be stable enough.

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f108/woman-cave-189592

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f245/studio-181897

The pix are still there on these threads as they were later.

If you are still keen to use a single sheet of mdf I would hang the door from a track at the top rather than rollers on the bottom of the door.

As another alternative I would also investigate Master Splinter's suggestion in post #12 of using hollow core doors.

Regards
Paul