This fantastic round up of diy barn door hardware by remodelaholic will help you narrow down your options for your next diy barn door project.
Making barn doors out of ftench doors.
Once cut we laid them out on the door in an arrangement we liked.
Add trim to finish out the rough edges.
We then cut other pieces to create the barn door design.
These are some great examples of the types of barn doors you can build or order if you should so desire.
We wanted them to hide the frame around the door opening when they were closed.
Waiting to transform french doors into a barn door for our laundry room was hard but worth the wait.
I am looking into barn doors in place of french doors.
Before you start shopping for barn door hardware take a careful look at the area where you would like to install the barn door and figure out what door setup works best.
How to turn a bifold door into a barn door.
I added trim around the edges of the fretwork panel where it met the cut out opening in the door.
You can choose whatever width you d like whether wide or narrow.
Our doors were custom built to the measurements we needed.
If you want to cover the opening with one door you ll need an area on one side of the opening that s wide enough for the door.
The total cost for our project was 100 per door plus 115 hanging hardware plus stain 350.
Supplies for diy barn doors.
Find these from 1925 workbench.
The first thing we did was cut the underlayment into strips using a table saw.
The finished size of each barn door we built is almost 7 tall and 3 3 wide.
I am fine with having only clearance for one door one slid behind the other on a double track i suppose 99 of the time but just wondering if its easy to take them off track should you need.
The thing is i don t have ample room for them on either side of the 6 7 foot width open area.
See what we learned and learn from the mistakes we made before we had the barn door of our dreams.
They are usually either really rustic or super modern due to hardware.
I don t think making a barn door using a french door would look right.
Since you are building a house i would suggest living with it and make sure your new house doesn t have the same issue.