How To Make A Simple Barn Door

Materials for building a tongue and groove barn door.

How to make a simple barn door.

I also like this board because it has. 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. Https amzn to 35vwjwi get your barndoor hardware here amazon link. Thankfully the price of the door came no where near the price of the pre made barn door as we were able to make ours for under 100.

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. We used this one which i was estatic to find because it was about 5 per board. The door itself was fairly easy to build once we finally decided on the design that we liked. Building a sliding barn door means you don t have to rip open and reframe a wall for a pocket door.

I started out my cutting 4 boards at 8 feet long. 10 pieces of tongue and groove pine 8 ft tall or however tall you want it it comes in 6 ft 8 ft and 12 ft at home depot. Like it took me literally less than an hour and that was with a few stops to wrangle a few fighting kids and feed them a quick lunch. This barn door was super simple to make.

Here is what we used to make our barn door. Http amzn to 2ka3plm tools list amazon li.