Figure out how large you want your wood frame to be.
Shoji sliding door construction.
Here s how the door was built.
Where light transmission is not needed the similar but opaque fusuma is used.
All wood species will vary somewhat in grain and color.
Cut two sheets of purebond pre finished plywood to size with an extra in each direction.
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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.
Above the top rail a non movable blending completes the project.
I used poplar wood because it is lightweight and more importantly cheap.
Traditional shoji are handmade by craftsmen called tategu ya.
Shoji sliding door panels are attached using a shikii floor rail and a kamoi overhead beam.
Shoji is a style of japanese sliding door.
Shoji panels are made of wooden frames with translucent white paper glued to a lattice structure.
Interior walls of houses constructed with shoji doors can be removed from their tracks to expand the rooms for parties.
So what is a shoji and how is it constructed.
Our screens and doors are hand built using the finest woods and papers available.
Cedar can be used for outdoor applications as well.
All shoji are built double sided with full 1 3 8 thick frames.
See our installations for examples.
To make 2 sliding doors with overlap of one edge find the centerline of your opening and draw a line.
Shoji hawaii has created a lovely collection of traditional and custom shoji screens doors and room dividers.
A shōji is a door window or room divider used in traditional japanese architecture consisting of translucent sheets on a lattice frame.
We decided to use the purebond for our shoji door to the bathroom too faster than using wood framing pieces and going with a hardware free sliding door would mean more durability overall.
In many cases it consists of 4 doors that slide in a bottom rail at the floor and a top rail.
Shōji are very lightweight so they are easily slid aside or taken off their tracks and stored in a closet opening the room to other rooms or the outside.
To construct this tracking system from scratch you will have to etch a 1 16 inch groove into the lower.
Wood samples below shown next to ebony door pulls for color comparison.
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A shoji is the japanese word for a paper wall or door.
Shoji usually slide but may occasionally be hung or hinged especially in more rustic styles.
Our shoji screens can be made to slide fold be used as closet doors wardrobe doors pocket doors or as a regular door.