I made a custom modern sliding barn door for my parents new house in one weekend.
Make barn door from flooring.
Many options are available for pole barn flooring because pole barn construction doesn t depend on the floor as the building s foundation.
The final door size for a wall mounted track should be the width of the opening to the outside of trim by the height of the door opening to the top of the trim minus 1 2 inch.
Get the detailed woodworking plan here to build your own chevron barn door using new lumber or using reclaimed hardwood flooring like emily shows in the photo tutorial below.
If your barn door doesn t have a groove in it there are roller guides and adjustable roller guides that will work.
Hardware for the bottom of the sliding barn door.
You ll need a guide at the floor to prevent the bottom of the door from swinging.
75 x 8 51 638 25 or our oak blend reclaimed wall paneling would be about 79.
For wall mounted track measure from the floor to the top of trim.
Next install bottom guide to the floor or molding.
Ready to install options can be costly and the idea of creating a diy barnwood door may seem intimidating but this guide will teach you how to choose your lumber remove your current door and install a brand new custom barn wood door in just a few steps.
The finished barn door measures 39 w x 84 h x 1 d.
To establish a budget let s say you want to build one big barn door that is roughly 4 wide and 8 tall a smaller door would be slightly less.
Homemade biparting barn doors out of leftover wood flooring.
The simplest guide is an l shaped metal bracket that mounts to the floor and fits into a groove cut in the bottom of the door.
Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers.
This project was built for our new home at the request ahem determined pushing of my wife.
This opens the door to several different choices for flooring with quite a range in pricing.
75 square feet of our idaho barn wood blend paneling see photos below for this option.
14 steps to building your.
Our hardware kit came with the floor guide but once we had installed new flooring in this room i really didn t want to drill into it.
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.
There were no rules she had no designs in mind and she even trusted me on most of the decisions i made along the way even down to the hardware select.
Here s how i did it with a little help from my partner in crime.
Here are some material costs.
Whether for the bathroom bedroom or laundry room entry deciding to build a barn wood door can ensure added privacy and style.