Making Custom Wardrobe With Sliding Doors

When you want to save a decent amount of money and you are inspired to try something you have never done before - such wardrobe is born.
This wardrobe was designed and assembled together with my wife. We are not furniture professionals at all.
In fact, there is nothing complicated about this. The most difficult thing for us was probably to decide on the color of the doors and chipboard :)
This will not be a detailed instruction for making a wardrobe, but only a list of points that we have done to make it. Short and clear.
At the end you can see a short video timelapse of our assembly.
So, get inspired and design!

Wardrobe Design

1. Define the wardrobe sizes.
- in our case sizes are defined by our niche in hallway. Wardrobe size (L x W x H): 2300 x 810 x 2500mm. We decided to make the shape of the cabinet trapezoidal rather than rectangular, due to this it does not look so bulky in our small hallway.

2. Decide what you will keep in wardrobe.
- half of wardrobe will keep the outerwear and other one - shoes, clothes, vacuum cleaner.

3. Choose the available materials and furniture.
- body is chipboard.

4. Draw the wardrobe.
- this part was done by my wife in Autocad, because she is master of it). You can choose Sketchup for example.

Sawing Drawing

After you drawn the wardrobe in any software tool you able to know how many material you need and how many parts it consist of. This information is needed for sawing drawing.
In most cases companies who selling chipboards also doing cutting and edging. So we provided to them sawing drawing to do this job to get high quality cutted details.

Doors Design

Design of doors - very simple straight lines. With MDF material you can make any original pattern you want. This pattern milled with CNC machine, then polished and painted few times. Paint can be any from RAL pallet. Note that doors is most expensive part of this wardrobe.

Recomendations about doors dimensions and all necessary information about mounting procedure are present in specification of sliding system.

Assembly (Video Time-Lapse)

Custom wardrobe with sliding doors | DIY / Шкаф-купе с раздвижными дверями своми руками

No extra tools needed: ruler, pencil, drill, screwdriver and right angle clamp is very helpful. Nothing more to say - check the time-lapse video.

Materials, Prices, Drawings

Cost price of such wardrobe - ~964$. It consist of:

1. Body: chipboard, 4x sheets 2500mm x 1830mm (including cutting and edging) - 270$

2. 2x Doors: MDF, 1х sheet 2800mm x 2070 (including milling and painting) - 470$

3. Sliding system: Albatur M02 8220 SFT (including top and bottom 2.5m rails) - 174$

4. Accessories (handles, supports, screws) - 50$

For example, the price of such wardrobe, if you ordering it from furniture maker that will made it for your custom needs, will be minimum TWO TIMES more expensive. So it is reasonable to make it by yourself and save money.

Thanks for attention!

Drawings Link