Making Wooden Barn Doors

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.

Making wooden barn doors.

Choose the guide that works best for your door. 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. 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. Whatever wood you decide to use for your door try to pick nicer boards without cracks loose knots and bows.

If your barn door doesn t have a groove in it there are roller guides and adjustable roller guides that will work. Thicker wood will make the door better at keeping heat in but will also make it heavier. We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store. This is going to be a two part series.

We re building sliding barn doors. We have an awesome building project for you today. Whether for the bathroom bedroom or laundry room entry deciding to build a barn wood door can ensure added privacy and style. To build a door for a shed start by cutting a piece of wood paneling or ti 11 siding to the size of the door opening minus 1 2 inch on each side.

Barn doors that swing out need to be mounted on very large and strong hinges and sliding barn doors need to be properly balanced and hung on high quality hardware in order to work properly. Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers. 14 steps to building your. If you are building a barn with wooden siding put nicest boards aside for doors trims.