We decided to use tongue groove boards to create the base of the door because we liked the interlocking aspect of the boards.
How to make a 27 barn door.
You may want a painted or stained barn door.
To hang it you can follow the instructions found in the barn door hardware kit you choose.
We wanted them to hide the frame around the door opening when they were closed.
We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.
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The total cost for our project was 100 per door plus 115 hanging hardware plus stain 350.
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From the start i knew i wanted to build something fun and vibrant in the kitchen space to add color since most of the area is monochromatic.
Use inexpensive pine from home depot.
Depending upon where your barn door is you may want it to look a little fancier.
In my situation i wanted the diagonal design to make it look like a barn door.
Of course once you have it constructed you will need to fill the holes sand and paint it and hang it.
Supplies for diy barn doors.
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If you are only making one door you could get it done in a day.
Our doors were custom built to the measurements we needed.
I d recommend doing this before hanging the door.
The finished size of each barn door we built is almost 7 tall and 3 3 wide.
When i looked into getting custom barn doors built the asking cost was.
A barn door in 30 minutes.
First build the barn door.
Our specific door needed to be 37x84 inches.
We re building sliding barn doors.
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.
Whenever you walk into the studio the barn doors make a statement.
This is going to be a two part series.
Here another shot of the completed barn door in our master bathroom.
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 this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers.
It only required a total of 8 cuts.
First build the barn door.
The size will vary depending in your door opening.
Use inexpensive pine from home depot.
Learn how to build a barn door.
We chose our size because we wanted to have our barn door completely cover the door trim when.
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The size will vary depending in your door opening.
In my case the door was quite large.