How To Build A Horizontal Barn Door
If you ve investigated rustic barn doors you ve probably gotten sticker shock.
How to build a horizontal barn door. It looks really good in my opinion. We have multiple sized barn doors in our home but our door measured 38 1 2 x 84 1 2. So we cut all of our tongue and groove to 84 1 2 inches. First you ll want to cut all your tongue and groove boards to length.
Please check out our book. Do you love the barn door look but don t have space for a sliding door. It was an easy decision to build one for the new bathroom in order to free up limited space and i figured i d build a couple more for the downstairs theater room entrance while i was at it since that space was unfinished. Here s how to save your money by taking the diy approach to building a barn door.
Https amzn to 35vwjwi get your barndoor hardware here amazon link. Diy sliding barn door hardware is available in all manner of styles and budgets and the door options are limitless from salvage finds to original diy creations like this one a mix of pallet wood and common cedar. But for 48 yes you might want to do a horizontal piece. Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers.
Before you start shopping for barn door hardware take a careful look at the area where you would like to install the barn. You can still have the look. Http amzn to 2ka3plm tools list amazon li. 14 steps to building your.
You should build all of them. We originally wanted to find an old reclaimed door but the size we needed was much larger than a standard sized door so we decided to build our own wood door. The diy barn door headboard. Barn door hardware wood putty orbital sander.
So you ll want to borrow an idea like this tutorial offers by making your headboard look like a barn door. We ve wanted a sliding barn door for our master bedroom bathroom doorway ever since we moved in last year right now it s an open door from the bedroom. To do this decide on the height and the width you want the door to be. Glad you like them.
You guys have seen the diy double barn door i made for the north house lodge bathroom and the modern horizontal wood sliding barn door for the bedroom next door to that one which you can see in the 54 house tour. That s what i did for our barn door in our foyer. To find inspiration i browsed through pinterest as always and came up with two different simple and easy to build plans using inexpensive 1 boards i could buy at. January 1 2019 at 4 10 pm.