Screw each piece of lumber together.
How big to build a interior barn door.
Since these doors are heavy he easiest way to construct them is to build the door on the ground first and hang it second.
Generally most standard barn doors are approximately 36 x 84 or 42 x 80 with enough extra lip to overlap most standard door frames 36 x 80 by an inch or so.
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Our doors hang 3 4 above the highest point of the ground and 5 8 below the hardware giving a total height of 82.
Cut the boards inch shorter than the height of the opening to allow the door to pass over the floor guide.
This is going to be a two part series.
First build the barn door.
At just a little over 1000 total square feet in the floor plan space is at a premium.
Measure the opening to determine the door width add at least two inches to the width of the opening or to the outside dimensions of the door trim.
In my case the door was quite large.
Designed to cover a 30 inch wide opening with 4 inch casing on either side this door measures 38 inches wide by 2 inches thick by 83 inches tall.
Use inexpensive pine from home depot.
We re building sliding barn doors.
I recommend 2 coats.
Barn doors can fit into nearly any decor.
Even the highest quality plywood often has an uneven and unsightly finish on its sides.
Lightly sand before each coat.
The size will vary depending in your door opening.
To begin building your metal barn doors place each 2x6x8 piece of lumber in place to form a large rectangle.
For that very reason they have become the door of choice in our new simple house that we are currently building at the farm.
This includes the hardware and track.
1x6 pine boards for the back.
Sliding doors should extend at least an inch beyond the sides of the opening that don t have trim or an inch beyond the moldings of openings with trim.
Before putting it together sand each board and then coat each board with polyurethane stain.
Most barn door sizes fall anywhere between 36 wide on the shorter side by 96 tall on the longer side.
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.
We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.
In this video i ll show you how to build a wooden barn door for under a 100.