Trade your ordinary interior door for a farm chic sliding barn door with these easy steps.
Can you use a regular door as a barn door.
Cut two 1x4s to the height of your door and two 1x4s seven inches shorter than the width of your door.
However not all doors can be barn doors.
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Next install the hardware.
Is tall enough to cover your door opening with a little overlap.
But buying a pre made barn door is pricey and we would like to reuse the doors themselves but aren t quite sure if they need to be slightly wider than they are now and how to go about converting them for the task.
Turn a regular door into a sliding barn door.
Measure the width and height of the door.
To be a barn door you need to make sure that the door.
Use a template to mark the holes for your door hardware then drill the holes making sure to hold the drill perpendicular to the floor.
This hardware is now easy to find in a wide range of styles.
Determine placement of doorknob.
Some just won t work.
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You ll need a set of sliding door hardware as well as a door that s large enough to cover your opening.
A group of friends find this historic door at a local salvage shop and turn it into a sliding barn door.
Create an outer frame on the door with 1x4s.