Remember to add 2 inches to your door opening so your new barn door will cover the opening.
Make a interior barn door.
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.
Building a barn door is a simple project.
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.
It s a perfect addition to add to your living space like for kitchen bathroom bedroom or any other room in your house.
The benefit of these doors is that they are cheap stable and easy to paint.
If your barn door doesn t have a groove in it there are roller guides and adjustable roller guides that will work.
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Barn doors can be incorporated in your interior throughout your home.
Line the panels up side by side and mark were you want to trim them to length.
We inserted the panels into the door centering the panels in the opening.
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Use your saw to cut the wood to size.
Once you have cut the boards to size measure the appearance board you just cut width wise so you can cut your top and bottom trim boards.
Measure and mark the size of your door on your plywood.
Sliding barn door hardware plus optional spacers.
We cut them to length using the miter saw.
Then we drilled a couterbore and held the panels in place with a fender washer and a 1 kreg screw.
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Cut the boards inch shorter than the height of the opening to allow the door to pass over the floor guide.
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