sliding wardrobe doors

[patch]

hi all.
im fitting some sliding doors in my 2nd bedroom,there not wall to wall so one end will have ab end panel, my problem is that the ceiling is out by 45mm from end to end,the overall width of the wardrobe will be 3m,the right side measures 2440mm from floor to ceiling and the left measures 2395mm,the floor is level.now the pelmet or top panel will have to be cut wider by 45mm at one end and will look stupid,i really cannot have that it will bug the hell out of me for the rest of my life if i do it that way,so basically im going to re board the ceiling and put strips of wood on the joists to make the ceiling level,i was just wondering if that is not necessary and im just creating more work for myself,any advice would be greatly recieved.

 

[tomf]

Don't take it all the way to the ceiling and leave a gap at the top?

 

[Mike.S]

i really cannot have that it will bug the hell out of me for the rest of my life if i do it that way

You sound like me (still fretting over an electrical socket installed a decade ago that's not perfectly horizontal ) !

To try to be helpful: what style home do you have? Old, with very few straight lines on walls and ceilings (where a 45mm drop in 3m will be in keeping) or newer, where it will 'jar'?

One option, depending upon style/preference might be to lower the top of the wardrobe by say 100-200mm and insert a panel (plasterboard on a frame) in that space as a fillet. This to give you a true horizontal edge which your wardrobe top will abut. Paint it white (or whatever colour the ceiling is) and the eye will tend to lose the 45mm slope and see it as part of the ceiling, rather than part of the wardrobe. Addition of coving (on the 100-200mm fillet), perhaps just to that wall, may also help lose the slope.

If that's not an attractive option then some sort of ceiling fix sounds inevitable. Have you checked if the slope extends the full width of the room or just at the end where the wardrobe is to be installed?

 

[patch]

thanks mike and tom,they are both great ideas and really appreciated advice =D> ,personally like what tom said but its ultimately up to the mrs,less head ache :mrgreen: i will put both ideas to her and let her decide.
again thank you both, =D>

 

[petermillard]

If you made it a pelmet i.e. so that it sat in front of the doors and hides their top, then the pelmet could just follow the line of the ceiling; a 45mm difference taken over the height of the visible door would probably be a lot less noticable...