How To Build An Interior Barn Door
My very first barn door experience was for our laundry room a year ago and i knew it wouldn t be the last.
How to build an interior barn door. However it could look great in many different areas of the house. How to turn an old interior door into a fabulous sliding barn door step 1. So if you d like to build your own barn door from start to finish then check out this tutorial.
In this video i ll show you how to build a wooden barn door for under a 100. Place wood glue we used titebond interior wood glue between the trim piece and the plywood using clamps to hold the trim board in place. To do this we started by gluing and screwing the bottom rail to both sides stiles.
Once you ve cut the plywood to size measure the width of the plywood to cut the top and bottom 1 x6 trim boards. I removed them with a circular saw and a guide cutting away about 1 4 of material. Secure with lock nuts on the rear.
The simplest guide is an l shaped metal bracket that mounts to the floor and fits into a groove cut in the bottom of the door. Choose the guide that works best for your door. It was an easy decision to build one for the new bathroom in order to free up limited space and i figured i d build a couple more for the downstairs theater room entrance while i was at it since that space was unfinished.
For this door i used cedar fence pickets left over from a fence build. Hang the door step 11 13 before you begin measure the width of the door from the outside edges of the casing then order a hardware kit with a track twice that width. To create the handles use 1 5 inch steal.
This will ensure that your door is square. Now i show you how to build it for cheap. Try this diy barn door idea.