First build the barn door.
How big to build a interior barn door.
Even the highest quality plywood often has an uneven and unsightly finish on its sides.
1x6 pine boards for the back.
At just a little over 1000 total square feet in the floor plan space is at a premium.
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.
This includes the hardware and track.
Use inexpensive pine from home depot.
Using a large square we marked and cut the plywood to match the height of the door.
In this video i ll show you how to build a wooden barn door for under a 100.
Measure your barn opening to determine the size of the doors.
Most barn door sizes fall anywhere between 36 wide on the shorter side by 96 tall on the longer side.
In my case the door was quite large.
Our doors hang 3 4 above the highest point of the ground and 5 8 below the hardware giving a total height of 82.
Designed to cover a 30 inch wide opening with 4 inch casing on either side this door measures 38 inches wide by 2 inches thick by 83 inches tall.
Generally most standard barn doors are approximately 36 x 84 or 42 x 80 with enough extra lip to overlap most standard door frames 36 x 80 by an inch or so.
Before putting it together sand each board and then coat each board with polyurethane stain.
Sliding doors should extend at least an inch beyond the sides of the opening that don t have trim or an inch beyond the moldings of openings with trim.
We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.
I recommend 2 coats.
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Lightly sand before each coat.
We re building sliding barn doors.
Since these doors are heavy he easiest way to construct them is to build the door on the ground first and hang it second.
For that very reason they have become the door of choice in our new simple house that we are currently building at the farm.
To begin building your metal barn doors place each 2x6x8 piece of lumber in place to form a large rectangle.
The size will vary depending in your door opening.
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Barn doors can fit into nearly any decor.
Measure the opening to determine the door width add at least two inches to the width of the opening or to the outside dimensions of the door trim.