How To Build A Sliding Barn Door With Mirror

I will show you how to build a sliding mirror door using wood wheels and pipe fittings.

How to build a sliding barn door with mirror.

We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store. The mirror slides across the room on stationary wheels and a galvanized steel pipe track. Hang the diy sliding barn door. I was able to build this one in about 30 minutes.

With the track mounted finish the job by putting the door on the track. I designed this barn door to be visually sleek and modern. Carefully roll it into each end to determine where to place the stops. Take it down and replace it with a sliding barn door.

Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers. Let s get right to it and kick things off with our inexpensive barn door with mirror and finished closet. This beginner friendly tutorial is a for two sided barn door with rustic decorative trim on both sides. Not only did it solve the problem but it added another element of visual interest to the room.

Which means fewer pieces and cuts and that means easier to build. This project lays out the steps to build a door of any size while still keeping the 1 3 4 door width required by standard sliding barn door hardware. 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. We re building sliding barn doors.

At long last i m ready to start sharing our powder room and simple closet build. Mount the end stops bottom guides and any other hardware according to your specific set of instructions. Use wood boards from the big box store and birch plywood for a budget friendly project. Our new bedroom closet and a diy barn door with mirror from an old wood door.

Also show you how to install it. This is going to be a two part series. 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. Follow along as i show you how i build a siding barn door.

Once we received everything we painted the door white it comes primed and we drilled holes to attach the hardware. A slit was also cut at the bottom of the door in order to use the floor glide that comes with the hardware kit see pictures below.