Lay all of your pine tongue and groove out.
How to make a bypass barn door.
Barn doors are popular and a great diy project but if you don t have the space you can still have the look with this trick to turn bypass closet doors into sliding faux barn doors.
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 was really excited about these and planned to write this great tutorial because really who wouldn t want an awesome diy double bypass sliding barn door system say that five times fast.
Diy barn doors step 1 selecting the material.
So let s talk about that.
Barn doors can be incorporated in your interior throughout your home.
Cut list for installing a sliding door 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.
And yes all of the 4 bypass barn doors pictured above are fully functional doors none are fixed.
Cut the boards inch shorter than the height of the opening to allow the door to pass over the floor guide.
1x6 pine boards for the back.
I would purchase a few extra just in case you make a mistake.
There are many different ways to build barn doors but the process simply breaks down into two parts.
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It s a perfect addition to add to your living space like for kitchen bathroom bedroom or any other room in your house.
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Build your very own barn door by using the material mentioned here.
Second is the door usually a backer board plus trim.
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I purchased mine at lowe s for 5 58 each and used 8 boards for the door 3 for the frame and 2 for the british brace arrow look so 13 total per door.
After building 6 doors we became.
First is the hardware track hangers fasteners etc.
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