How To Make A Simple Barn Door

Before you start shopping for barn door hardware take a careful look at the area where you would like to install the barn door and figure out what door setup works best.

How to make a simple barn door.

I started out my cutting 4 boards at 8 feet long. We used this one which i was estatic to find because it was about 5 per board. 10 pieces of tongue and groove pine 8 ft tall or however tall you want it it comes in 6 ft 8 ft and 12 ft at home depot. Thankfully the price of the door came no where near the price of the pre made barn door as we were able to make ours for under 100.

I also like this board because it has. Please check out our book. 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. Like it took me literally less than an hour and that was with a few stops to wrangle a few fighting kids and feed them a quick lunch.

The door itself was fairly easy to build once we finally decided on the design that we liked. If you want to cover the opening with one door you ll need an area on one side of the opening that s wide enough for the door. Materials for building a tongue and groove barn door. Here is what we used to make our barn door.

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