How To Make A Simple Barn Door

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How to make a simple barn door.

This barn door was super simple to make. The door itself was fairly easy to build once we finally decided on the design that we liked. We used this one which i was estatic to find because it was about 5 per board. Building a sliding barn door means you don t have to rip open and reframe a wall for a pocket door.

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. 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. Https amzn to 35vwjwi get your barndoor hardware here amazon link. Here is what we used to make our barn door.

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. 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. 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. It s easy to see why.

I started out my cutting 4 boards at 8 feet long. I also like this board because it has.