Creative Ways to Cover a Doorless Closet (No Renovation Needed!)

Closets without doors can look messy—but with a few smart solutions, you can easily turn them into a stylish part of your room.

Wondering how to cover a closet without doors? I have the perfect affordable solution for an oversized or undersized closet opening without doors.

This is a vintage picture of Whitney’s room circa 2018.

It’s actually a picture of her doorless closet.

The closet doesn’t have a door because she lost part of her closet to the bathroom renovation of 2018. You can see the before and after of the bathroom here.

It’s a challenging space because it’s too small for a folding door and too big for a standard door. So for several months it just looked like this.

Then? We originally fixed the closet door solution with a barn door. It seemed like a brilliant solution at the time. The door slid back and forth between the closet and the bathroom and was amazing and beautiful and extra barn-like.

But now?

It’s 2023.

And Whitney requested an update. She wanted something new. Something different. Something a little less barn-like.

At first, I was worried I couldn’t fix it. Good thing she has a mother who is a little creative when it comes to challenging door dilemmas in a hundred-year-old home. So we took down the barn door and redid the closet.

And now it looks like this.

How To Cover a Closet Without Doors

Yep.

I covered it with a curtain.

And not just any curtain. I did my curtain research and found a white curtain that’s also a blackout curtain. So it’s super thick and really heavy and insulated and it’s 30% off right now (for as long as they have the coupon) for a set of 2.

They come in TONS of different colors and I ordered the curtains in 96″ long to hang above the edge of the closet opening.

You can see the curtains here.

One quick tip when you are hanging curtains like this.

Always, always, ALWAYS hang them higher (and at least 4-5 inches) outside of your closet or window.

This way the closet or window always looks bigger than it is.

You can use this tip to fix off-center windows or windows that are smaller or just plain awkward windows. Do not let your window (or in this case the closet) define your decor.

Think bigger and faux out your closets and windows.

To hang the curtains?

I used my go-to gold curtain rods that according to Amazon I have purchased 17 times for a variety of projects.

And my go-to curtain rings (such an amazing deal with a set of 40 for under $14).

You just clip the curtain rings onto the curtains like this.

Do NOT skimp on the curtain rings. The more that you use, the more elevated the curtain looks. These curtain rings slide perfectly on the rod for easy closing and opening.

You can see the curtain rods here.

You can see the curtain rings here.

Here’s a close-up of the curtain so you can see how thick it is.

If you choose this as a solution, I would definitely choose a thicker curtain so it completely disguises the closet. There’s a reason why we close off the closet and you want to be able to close the closet door even if it’s curtains.

One tip. Make sure you steam out these curtains if you order them. When I unpacked them they were wrinkled and the wrinkles didn’t come out even after they hung up for a couple of days. Once I used a steamer on the wrinkles, they came right out.

You can see the steamer I use on the regular here.

In awesome news, once the wrinkles came out, the curtains didn’t ever re-wrinkle.