The good news is that you can satisfy both those loves by building your own sliding barn door for any doorway in your home.
How to make your own sliding barn 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.
It s great to note that if you have an old door laying around in storage you can easily convert it into a sliding barn door without any hassle you just need the hardware to hang it.
In the pictures below my handle had not yet come.
Choose the guide that works best for your door.
Much easier to do than you might think.
The opening was 24 5 x 96 5.
Keep in mind that your barn door should be about 1 2 to 3 4 taller than your opening.
Build the door steps 2 10.
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.
And it should be about 4 to 5 inches wider.
To finish it off i added a 14 square cast iron handle pull.
If your barn door doesn t have a groove in it there are roller guides and adjustable roller guides that will work.
Plan for a 2 day project.
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.
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.
Today s post will show you how.
This will give you a couple of inches of overlap on your trim and help create more privacy.