Oriental furniture 7 ft.
Shoji sliding door construction.
Keeping track of everything was important so as to not get the sets of parts.
Since i travel a lot and could only work on the project on the weekends it took about a year to complete.
My house had the generic metal bi fold closet doors which look very cheap.
I needed a door for the kitchen but wanted to keep the room as bright as possible so i decided to build a shoij screen sliding door.
Is a door window or room divider used in traditional japanese architecture consisting of translucent or transparent sheets on a lattice frame.
Traditional shoji are handmade by craftsmen called tategu ya.
Thick x 3 50 in.
Spring loaded guide pins in the bottom edge of each shoji engage the channel and stabilize the bottom of the doors.
Rough opening outside dimension approximately 83 00 in.
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H x 73 50 in.
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Tracks and jambs are approximately 1 75 in.
The shoji is guided at the floor with an attractive half moon shaped guide.
This fantastic zen shoji sliding door kit comes with sliding doors top and bottom tracks and right and left door jambs.
Interior walls of houses constructed with shoji doors can be removed from their tracks to expand the rooms for parties.
Diyhd 6ft bottom rolling sliding barn door hardware with soft close mechanism smooth black top rail and floor rail box track.
While searching for a curtain or door for our bedroom walk in closet we concluded that a japanese sliding door called a shoji would be the best solution.
To construct this tracking system from scratch you will have to etch a 1 16 inch groove into the lower.
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A shōji 障 しょう 子 じ japanese pronunciation.
While many of the shoji doors in this project had different over all dimensions the joinery dimensions were all similar the main differences being piece total length and spacing of the kumiko mortises in the rails and stiles.
Tall zen shoji sliding door kit double sided natural.
Shoji sliding door panels are attached using a shikii floor rail and a kamoi overhead beam.
When the shoji need to travel a greater distance than just their width we use a wood floor track with a 3 8 inlaid aluminum channel.
Where light transmission is not needed the similar but opaque fusuma is used oshiire closet doors for instance shoji usually slide but may occasionally be hung or hinged.
Here follows a detailed description of the process i used to make a set of shoji doors.
Shoji style sliding closet doors from scratch.
Shoji panels are made of wooden frames with translucent white paper glued to a lattice structure.
I wanted a higher end look but not a higher end price tag.
I began drawing the first plans with sketchup in october 2011.