Making A Sliding Barn Door Out Of Old Wood

A barn door in 30 minutes.
Making a sliding barn door out of old wood. A sliding door for your barn can provide easy access to the shop for large projects when other kinds of large doors are impractical. 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. Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers. We have an awesome building project for you today.
Diy sliding barn door. This is going to be a two part series. To hang it you can follow the instructions found in the barn door hardware kit you choose. We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.
Next cut two more pieces for the top and bottom rails to 1 inch longer than the total width of the door. We re building sliding barn doors. It is a really simple design but has a different look than a lot of barn d. In this video i show how i made this wood sliding barn door with a modern twist.
Of course once you have it constructed you will need to fill the holes sand and paint it and hang it. Cut two pieces of 2 x 6 wood to the height of the door. 14 steps to building your. The instructions for how to build a sliding barn door included below are concise easy to follow and contain a full list of tools and materials that you ll need.
Here another shot of the completed barn door in our master bathroom. On the end grain of the rails use a framing square to mark the outline of a 1 x 4 tenon.