How To Build Barn Doors For House

Secure with lock nuts on the rear.

How to build barn doors for house.

How to build a barn door from beneath my heart. To create the handles use 1 5 inch steal. Cut list for installing a sliding door. From cozy bedrooms to rustic home offices and perfect room dividers barn style doors are all the rage for homeowners.

Choose the guide that works best for your door. What type of wood do you use to make a barn door. To hang it you can follow the instructions found in the barn door hardware kit you choose. Drill 2 holes in the steal and the door and placed a washer with a 1 inch steel pipe to extend the handle off the door.

This will ensure that your door is square. Build the door steps 2 10. It s time to assemble the frame of the barn door. Measure from both corners of the door before screwing the middle rail to the stiles.

The frame uses boards and then thinner wood is used for the accents. Here another shot of the completed barn door in our master bathroom. 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. Barn doors are not just for barns anymore.

It only required a total of 8 cuts. This diy barn door plan is used in place of a traditional interior door and it really adds some character to the space. To do this we started by gluing and screwing the bottom rail to both sides stiles. Of course once you have it constructed you will need to fill the holes sand and paint it and hang it.

Next glue and screw the bottom mullion to the bottom rail and middle rail. From the countryside barns these wide sliding doors have entered the house to become popular interior décor pieces. If your barn door doesn t have a groove in it there are roller guides and adjustable roller guides that will work.