How To Build A Sliding Barn Door Cabinet

We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.

How to build a sliding barn door cabinet.

This is going to be a two part series. I designed this barn door to be visually sleek and modern. To avoid paying 50 or more for pint size sliding door hardware kristine repurposed a 1 inch flat metal bar and metal garden edging stakes. Building a sliding barn door means you don t have to rip open and reframe a wall for a pocket door.

It s easy to see why. Take a walk down the hardware aisle at your local home improvement store and you re likely to come across several barn door style mounting systems in various shapes and sizes. Diy sliding barn door bathroom cabinet. I was able to build this one in about 30 minutes.

Don t want to build your own. 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. She also drilled holes through both sides of each stake she would be using. If you have enough this is a great way to save money.

Not only did it solve the problem but it added another element of visual interest to the room. She cut the bar to length then drilled screw holes to mount it. I used left over scrap 3 4 plywood for the side pieces and shelves. Take it down and replace it with a sliding barn door.

Sliding barn door style hardware is all the rage in interior design. Https amzn to 2cx7rp0 square splinter version of the popular diy rustic barn. 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. 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.

Here we shrink the concept for use in this rustic looking cabinet. We re building sliding barn doors. After i cut the side top and bottom pieces for the cabinet frame i drilled 3 4 pocket holes into the 1 6 top braces with my k5 kreg jig. 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.