Cut a sheet of 3 4 plywood to the size of your door opening plus the trim.
How to build 4 x 8 barn door with plywood.
Hang the sliding barn door hardware.
I found this one on amazon and it is heavy duty.
I want to put a mirror on the back of the door so i thought i would create a recess for the mirror by putting 1 4 plywood around it so the door is essentially flat with the mirror.
You want to cover the trim entirely when the barn door is closed.
Add 1 inch to your door to cover the opening.
Since this will increase the overall thickness of the door so i thought i would use 1 2 plywood for the main door panel instead of 3 4.
Just make sure that you have sufficient amount of 4 by 4s that you would be able to hang this hardware on otherwise the door will bring the whole hardware to the ground because it ends up to be like 50lbs.
A sheet of 3 4 inch exterior grade plywood cut to size and fitted with t strap hinges bolted to the door is about all.
Since we had two doors to build we cut each piece of plywood to 31 3 16.
This both looks better and provides more of a sound barrier between rooms.
We purchased the plywood for the back of the doors from home depot and had them cut the plywood for us.