Building a sliding barn door means you don t have to rip open and reframe a wall for a pocket door.
Building an interior sliding barn door.
Which means fewer pieces and cuts and that means easier to build.
Building door for a center aisle barn.
How to turn an old interior door into a fabulous sliding barn door step 1.
I designed this barn door to be visually sleek and modern.
We have an awesome building project for you today.
We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.
Barn doors are not just for barns anymore.
However barn doors aren t just for barns.
Not only did it solve the problem but it added another element of visual interest to the room.
From the countryside barns these wide sliding doors have entered the house to become popular interior décor pieces.
We built and installed one as the finishing touch of a kitchen remodel and we love it.
It s easy to see why.
I was able to build this one in about 30 minutes.
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.
If you prefer not to cut off material you can also fill them in with some filler or bondo.
A barn door is a door slab that slides left and right on wall mounted hardware stout rollers suspended from a steel bar in front of the door opening.
I removed them with a circular saw and a guide cutting away about 1 4 of material.
Take it down and replace it with a sliding barn door.
This is going to be a two part series.
We re building sliding barn doors.
Remove the door hinge mortises.
How to build a simple sliding barn door.
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.
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.
And i can tell that it s not the last place we ll use.