Make A Interior Barn Door

Then we drilled a couterbore and held the panels in place with a fender washer and a 1 kreg screw.
Make a interior barn door. It s a perfect addition to add to your living space like for kitchen bathroom bedroom or any other room in your house. 1 4 luan plywood if filling in a design between the outlines wood glue. The benefit of these doors is that they are cheap stable and easy to paint. Sliding barn door hardware plus optional spacers.
After all the materials are on site the total time for this project is about one day to build and one day to paint for both doors. If you are only making one door you could get it done in a day. 1x6 pine boards for the back. Remember to add 2 inches to your door opening so your new barn door will cover the opening.
A door solid core is best 1 4 lumber this project required 4 eight foot boards. Please check out our book. Cut the boards inch shorter than the height of the opening to allow the door to pass over the floor guide. If your barn door doesn t have a groove in it there are roller guides and adjustable roller guides that will work.
Most interior doors today are made from a material called masonite which is a kind of wood fiberboard that is steam cooked and pressure molded onto a thin wood frame to create a slab door that has an appearance of a door with rails stiles and panels. Paint or stain this is demo day from magnolia. 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. We inserted the panels into the door centering the panels in the opening.
Use your saw to cut the wood to size. Line the panels up side by side and mark were you want to trim them to length. Http amzn to 2ka3plm tools list amazon li. Building a barn door is a simple project.
Barn doors can be incorporated in your interior throughout your home. Measure and mark the size of your door on your plywood. Build your very own barn door by using the material mentioned here. Choose the guide that works best for your door.
We cut them to length using the miter saw.