Thanks to this great little tutorial on how to build your barn door track you can save some money.
How to make your own barn sliding door.
If your barn door doesn t have a groove in it there are roller guides and adjustable roller guides that will work.
Check out this post for a great tutorial on how to hang your sliding barn door.
So go ahead and give it a try.
To finish it off i added a 14 square cast iron handle pull.
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.
A lot of the expense in putting up a barn door in your home is the hardware.
This will give you a couple of inches of overlap on your trim and help create more privacy.
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.
Don t let that deter you from creating this look in your home any longer.
And voila another sliding barn door built.
Try this diy barn door idea.
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.
14 steps to building your own sliding barn doors step 1.
The first thing i did was measure the door opening.
Your barn door is now ready to hang.
Choose the guide that works best for your door.
Plan for a 2 day project.
In the pictures below my handle had not yet come.
Hang the door step 11 13 before you begin measure the width of the door from the outside edges of the casing then order a hardware kit with a track twice that width.
Keep in mind that your barn door should be about 1 2 to 3 4 taller than your opening.
And it should be about 4 to 5 inches wider.
Much easier to do than you might think.