This is a step by step guide on the diamond pattern design and how to hang the doors from ceiling rafters.
How to build sliding barn doors for a closet.
Take it down and replace it with a sliding barn door.
This is going to be a two part series.
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.
I designed this barn door to be visually sleek and modern.
Building a sliding barn door for a closet can look great and be affordable.
Instead they slide along the wall.
We re building sliding barn doors.
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.
The sliding barn doors do not take up any floor space.
Diy sliding barn door hardware is available in all manner of styles and budgets and the door options are limitless from salvage finds to original diy creations like this one a mix of pallet wood and common cedar.
However they also allow the closet to be completely opened up as opposed to the mirror sliding doors that were put on every closet in the 80s and 90s.
I was able to build this one in about 30 minutes.
Not only did it solve the problem but it added another element of visual interest to the room.
450 steel hanging hardware.
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Which means fewer pieces and cuts and that means easier to build.
We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.
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.