This hardware is now easy to find in a wide range of styles.
Can you use a regular door as a barn door.
While you can buy doors intended for a barn door installation home hardware and home depot have lightweight k and z style doors virtually any door can be converted to a barn door with special tracks and hangers.
Some just won t work.
To be a barn door you need to make sure that the door.
A group of friends find this historic door at a local salvage shop and turn it into a sliding barn door.
Create an outer frame on the door with 1x4s.
Is tall enough to cover your door opening with a little overlap.
Next install the hardware.
We need every inch of space in our small bedrooms and would like to convert the bedroom door and the closet door of the master and the closet door of the spare bedroom into barn door style doors.
The fixtures has been found at a reasonable price on amazon already.
Measure the width and height of the door.
Determine placement of doorknob.
Cut two 1x4s to the height of your door and two 1x4s seven inches shorter than the width of your door.
You ll need a set of sliding door hardware as well as a door that s large enough to cover your opening.
However not all doors can be barn doors.
Turn a regular door into a sliding barn door.
But buying a pre made barn door is pricey and we would like to reuse the doors themselves but aren t quite sure if they need to be slightly wider than they are now and how to go about converting them for the task.
Use a template to mark the holes for your door hardware then drill the holes making sure to hold the drill perpendicular to the floor.