I d recommend doing this before hanging the door.
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A barn door in 30 minutes.
Here another shot of the completed barn door in our master bathroom.
The size will vary depending in your door opening.
You may want a painted or stained barn door.
From the start i knew i wanted to build something fun and vibrant in the kitchen space to add color since most of the area is monochromatic.
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.
Use inexpensive pine from home depot.
Depending upon where your barn door is you may want it to look a little fancier.
You can decorate your door any way you d like.
We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.
We wanted them to hide the frame around the door opening when they were closed.
First build the barn door.
To hang it you can follow the instructions found in the barn door hardware kit you choose.
Measure your door opening and figure out what size you need to make your door.
We chose our size because we wanted to have our barn door completely cover the door trim when.
If you are only making one door you could get it done in a day.
In my case the door was quite large.
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First build the barn door.
It only required a total of 8 cuts.
The size will vary depending in your door opening.
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Of course once you have it constructed you will need to fill the holes sand and paint it and hang it.
The finished size of each barn door we built is almost 7 tall and 3 3 wide.
When i looked into getting custom barn doors built the asking cost was.
In my situation i wanted the diagonal design to make it look like a barn door.
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We decided to use tongue groove boards to create the base of the door because we liked the interlocking aspect of the boards.
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We re building sliding barn doors.
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Our doors were custom built to the measurements we needed.
The total cost for our project was 100 per door plus 115 hanging hardware plus stain 350.
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