Take it down and replace it with a sliding barn door.
Building barn door sliding.
I recently built a rustic sliding barn door for our finished basement and wanted write.
These doors add a great aesthetic impact to any room and they offer a functional solution where traditional swinging doors might be a problem.
14 steps to building your own sliding barn doors step 1.
Which means fewer pieces and cuts and that means easier to build.
Building or choosing a sliding barn doors can be as simple as a new or repurposed door slab or an elaborate custom designed door.
This is going to be a two part series.
How to build rustic sliding barn door sliding barn doors are very popular inside home today.
Plan for a 2 day project.
I designed this barn door to be visually sleek and modern.
I was able to build this one in about 30 minutes.
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.
With a little creativity and imagination hard woods thick gauge metals and repurposed materials can come together harmoniously.
This is what we did on these closet sliding barn doors and the double sliding barn door i built for the bathroom.
Not only did it solve the problem but it added another element of visual interest to the room.
The instructions for how to build a sliding barn door included below are concise easy to follow and contain a full list of tools and materials that you ll need.
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.
Diy sliding barn door.
Build the door steps 2 10.
What you need to remember when building this kind of door is to make your door 6 wider than the width of your aisle.
A sliding door for your barn can provide easy access to the shop for large projects when other kinds of large doors are impractical.
The best door system for a center aisle barn is a split slider double sliding door which is hung on rollers trolleys and slides on a track.
This sliding barn door tutorial is detailed with step by step instructions to build your own custom barn door.
A header for the door could be as simple as a 1 x 4 board attached with 3 1 2 screws into the studs in the wall.
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How to make a sliding barn door with diy pete.