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