How To Build A Sliding Barn Door With Mirror
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 sliding barn door with mirror. Also show you how to install it. Use wood boards from the big box store and birch plywood for a budget friendly project. Take it down and replace it with a sliding barn door. This beginner friendly tutorial is a for two sided barn door with rustic decorative trim on both sides.
We have an awesome building project for you today. This sliding mirror is my solution to a small walk in closet with no wall space and no back of the door option for a mirror. This is going to be a two part series. Which means fewer pieces and cuts and that means easier to build.
Not only did it solve the problem but it added another element of visual interest to the room. I was able to build this one in about 30 minutes. Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers. Carefully roll it into each end to determine where to place the stops.
Mount the end stops bottom guides and any other hardware according to your specific set of instructions. I will show you how to build a sliding mirror door using wood wheels and pipe fittings. This project lays out the steps to build a door of any size while still keeping the 1 3 4 door width required by standard sliding barn door hardware. The mirror slides across the room on stationary wheels and a galvanized steel pipe track.
Our new bedroom closet and a diy barn door with mirror from an old wood door. Let s get right to it and kick things off with our inexpensive barn door with mirror and finished closet. Hang the diy sliding barn door. We re building sliding barn doors.
Once we received everything we painted the door white it comes primed and we drilled holes to attach the hardware. With the track mounted finish the job by putting the door on the track. This keeps the door from swinging hitting the wall when sliding it open and closed. A slit was also cut at the bottom of the door in order to use the floor glide that comes with the hardware kit see pictures below.
We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store. Follow along as i show you how i build a siding barn door.