Pole Wrap a Bifold Closet Door DIY

11 Materials
$40
1 Day
Easy

Every day I look at our bifold coat closet door and every day I think how boring is this door! No longer, thanks to pole wrap!


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For me, design is in the details. Which, for me, means no design opportunity goes undone. Case in point is this bifold coat closet door.


Trust me, the interior already got its glow up.


When BASE CAMP Masks got in touch asking me to check out their dust mask, it was a terrific DIY opportunity to give this boring door a great new look.

First I needed to get this door into the workshop. It's easy to remove and replace a bifold door: open it, watch your fingers, push the whole door upwards, tilt it out at the bottom and down towards you, then out. To reinstall, do the reverse. Easy!

This bifold closet door is two feet wide so all I needed were two packages of 12" wide pole wrap. After laying the wrap over the closet door panels, it was looking a little too pole wrap-y so I poked around my scrap wood to find ways to break up the design a smidge.

Be sure when cutting pole wrap that you use painters tape around the cutting area as it will keep splintering to a minimum.

Here I'm measuring where my strip of plywood will go which is right over the hole for the original door pull.

A bit more trimming of the pole wrap and it was time to glue.


All this trimming did create a bunch of very fine sawdust but thankfully I had my new BASE CAMP woodworking mask -- I was safe as can be, not a single fine speck got through it. Really, truly, the very best filtration mask I've ever used.


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Time to glue up! Using construction adhesive and weighting everything down snug, I adhered the pole wrap to the doors. Be sure to get the glue all the way to the edges.


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Back upstairs, I found I had a little extra trimming to do but voilá, it looks great! So much better and no longer boring.


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While I still need to do a few more little tweaks (the door framing wood is bowed of course, thanks flipper and the door apparently hasn't shut all the way prior), I think it turned out very stylish and chic!


Thanks BASE CAMP Masks for helping this project come to fruition!

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Suggested materials:
  • Pole wrap   (Amazon)
  • Construction adhesive   (Amazon)
  • Miter saw   (Amazon)
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  • Shuganne Shuganne on Feb 22, 2025

    I've never heard of pole wrap. What is it?


    My ocd brain wants the horizontal piece to cover both doors. Did you consider adding that?


    Is the glue you used permanent? I love the look of natural wood. Did you need to finish it?


    Thanks for sharing!

  • TAS TAS on Mar 17, 2025

    can you use pole wrap to cover ugly sliding doors -not mirror. Thanks :) appreciate this.

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  • Elena Elena on Mar 16, 2025

    Too plain looking for me. I like the panels of the original door. Pole Wrap isn’t cheap, and this is kind of wasted on the door, in my opinion only. I would have painted the original doors , maybe used a wood look contacts paper instead. It just seems like a lot of money and time to look so plain. Like I said, my opinion only, please don’t flame me.

    • Gilmer Gal Gilmer Gal on Mar 19, 2025

      Contact paper. Really???


  • Lb1131569552 Lb1131569552 on Mar 16, 2025

    I think you did a beautiful job, I certainly couldn't have done it. That being said, to the individual who said it was "no improvement at all," shame on you. Of course you're entitled to your opinion, but why provide it if you know it could be, and most likely will be hurtful? It could have been worded differently so as not to make somebody else feel badly after working so hard on a project.

    • Thank you, I like the way it looks too. Indeed, everyone can have their own feelings and opinions. I thank you for sharing your kind thoughts.

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