How To Build Mini Barn Doors

Place the studs every 24 on center and make sure the corners are square.

How to build mini barn doors.

Building a sliding barn door means you don t have to rip open and reframe a wall for a pocket door. 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. She cut the bar to length then drilled screw holes to mount it. 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.

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. Do you want to connect with other woodworkers. Join our facebook group. Cut the components for the wall frames at the right dimensions as shown in the diagram.

That all just went away. I am wheelchair bond at times and the doors won t open past the wheelchair. Build the side wall frames for the mini barn shed from 2 4 lumber. The barn doors will be prefect on the sink cabinet front.

We re building sliding barn doors. We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store. If you ve investigated rustic barn doors you ve probably gotten sticker shock. I wasn t certain how to do the barn doors and my quote for the work was unbelievably high.

Here s how to save your money by taking the diy approach to building a barn door. She also drilled holes through both sides of each stake she would be using. This is going to be a two part series. I can have my barn doors and i now know i can do them myself.

It s easy to see why.