Instead of solid wood use thinner shiplap panels available at most large home improvement stores and assemble with solid wood edges.
How to make your own sliding barn door hardware.
If so you re in luck because i m sharing a step by step tutorial on how we built our diy sliding barn door and installed the hardware.
You can find a set of bits here.
And voila another sliding barn door built.
This sliding door track can be made for under 100 including wooden wheels track the ebook available in the blog post provides a full list of the tools and supplies you ll need.
Your barn door is now ready to hang.
Have you ever thought about making your own door.
You ll also need a nut driver bit to drill the hex screws into the barn door track.
To finish it off i added a 14 square cast iron handle pull.
We ve wanted a sliding barn door for our master bedroom bathroom doorway ever since we moved in last year right now it s an open door from the bedroom.
Diy barn door hardware painting.
Create your own barn door track hardware.
Once all of the holes are predrilled and the wheels are assembled you can attach the barn door track to the piece of furniture.
Diy barn door hardware the track.
Much easier to do than you might think.
In the pictures below my handle had not yet come.
Assemble a door of the correct size using 1 4 or 1 6 boards.
For guided directions on how to build your own sliding barn door head over to vintage revival s step by step tutorial.
Choose the guide that works best for your door.
Barn door track diy tutorial.
Making the hangers and door stops.
In this case you could have the wood go vertical or horizontal and create any type of look you like.
If your barn door doesn t have a groove in it there are roller guides and adjustable roller guides that will work.