How To Build A Barn Door With Ship Lap

Before you start shopping for barn door hardware take a careful look at the area where you would like to install the barn door and figure out what door setup works best.

How to build a barn door with ship lap.

First you will need to measure the size of your door opening and determine the width and height you want your door to be. Our door opening is 4 wide so we built ours to be 4 wide and 7 tall. The door i used was a flat cheap builder grade wood door. How to build a shiplap door measure and prime your door.

This tutorial for a diy faux shiplap barn door can add tons of character to your home. This diy shiplap barn door is so much better than the old concertina door. I know i may be overly excited but this way to make a barn door is revolutionary and the best way ever. Today i m giving you the entire lowdown.

How to build a sliding barn door. The diy easy shiplap door only cost me 60 and i did it in under an hour. Whether for the bathroom bedroom or laundry room entry deciding to build a barn wood door can ensure added privacy and style. You can check out more video tutorials including this project on my instagram page angelarosehome.

The tongue and groove shiplap is the base of our door so we trimmed each of those planks to 7 tall. Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers. Today i m sharing all the details on our diy faux shiplap barn door. It slides so smoothly and gives the pantry a very professional finish.

The next step will be filling the holes in the kitchen walls sanding and painting them. 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. And if requires no finishing work of puttying and sanding win win win. 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.

I actually revealed the door back when i shared my mudroom reveal but i never shared the details on how i built it. This entire project including the door came in well under 100. 14 steps to building your. You are going to want to measure the door that you are using to determine how wide and long you need to cut your boards.

After that it will be time to install the bead board paneling to the lower half of the walls.