I always envisioned added a sliding barn door in our master bedroom.
How to make a barn door step by step.
We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.
Hang the door step 11 13 before you begin measure the width of the door from the outside edges of the casing then order a hardware kit with a track twice that width.
Before you begin with setting up the sliding barn door make sure that the door is correctly assembled.
In this tutorial i m going to show you step by step how i built a 36 sliding barn door from scratch for under 200.
In my case the door was quite large.
The first sharing how to build the barn door and the second will be talking about barn door hardware and installation in our attic family room.
How to build a modern barn door for your home.
Diy sliding barn door.
We re building sliding barn doors.
The sample is a standard 84 high x 36 wide barn door that would cover a typical opening.
As an example if the opening is of 30 inches in dimension rip the board to its width.
The battens are vertical boards on the backside.
For ease of understanding we show the step by step building of a barn door to cover a standard interior door opening.
Make sure that you have all of these tools and proceed to the steps.
Barn doors were typically made with leftover wood from the barn build and like i said before built to withstand weather movement.
14 steps to building your own sliding barn doors step 1.
The size will vary depending in your door opening.
Plan for a 2 day project.
Step by step instructions for building a craftsman style door and installing a barn door hardware kit.
The door to our master bathroom was a builder basic door that swung into the bathroom.
I even had the perfect location for it too.
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I also didn t need the door to be water tight since there.
First build the barn door.
Make sure that the board is all assembled.
These plans allow you to build a barn door of nearly any size using the same simple method.
This is going to be a two part series.
I went with 1x12s that were common pine boards since they were fairly cheap.
Build the door steps 2 10.