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 old style barn door.
Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers.
We re building sliding barn doors.
First build the barn door.
We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.
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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.
In this video this old house senior technical editor mark powers builds and installs a sliding barn door.
Use inexpensive pine from home depot.
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In my case the door was quite large.
This is going to be a two part series.
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.
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.
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