Interior walls of houses constructed with shoji doors can be removed from their tracks to expand the rooms for parties.
Shoji sliding door construction.
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.
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.
Shoji is a style of japanese sliding door.
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All wood species will vary somewhat in grain and color.
Figure out how large you want your wood frame to be.
Traditional shoji are handmade by craftsmen called tategu ya.
A shoji is the japanese word for a paper wall or door.
Wood samples below shown next to ebony door pulls for color comparison.
All shoji are built double sided with full 1 3 8 thick frames.
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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.
So what is a shoji and how is it constructed.
A shōji is a door window or room divider used in traditional japanese architecture consisting of translucent sheets on a lattice frame.
Our shoji screens can be made to slide fold be used as closet doors wardrobe doors pocket doors or as a regular door.
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.
See our installations for examples.
Above the top rail a non movable blending completes the project.
Shoji usually slide but may occasionally be hung or hinged especially in more rustic styles.
Building the shoji doors here follows a detailed description of the process i used to make a set of shoji doors.
Our screens and doors are hand built using the finest woods and papers available.
I just used the width that the wood comes in for the bottom and i cut it in half for the vertical frame pieces.
I used poplar wood because it is lightweight and more importantly cheap.
Where light transmission is not needed the similar but opaque fusuma is used.
Here s how the door was built.
To construct this tracking system from scratch you will have to etch a 1 16 inch groove into the lower.
Cut two sheets of purebond pre finished plywood to size with an extra in each direction.
Cedar can be used for outdoor applications as well.
Shoji sliding door panels are attached using a shikii floor rail and a kamoi overhead beam.