The fixtures has been found at a reasonable price on amazon already.
Can you use a regular door as a barn door.
Determine placement of doorknob.
Measure the width and height of the door.
Is tall enough to cover your door opening with a little overlap.
Trade your ordinary interior door for a farm chic sliding barn door with these easy steps.
To be a barn door you need to make sure that the door.
Next install the hardware.
Turn a regular door into a sliding barn door.
We need every inch of space in our small bedrooms and would like to convert the bedroom door and the closet door of the master and the closet door of the spare bedroom into barn door style doors.
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.
You ll need a set of sliding door hardware as well as a door that s large enough to cover your opening.
However not all doors can be barn doors.
While you can buy doors intended for a barn door installation home hardware and home depot have lightweight k and z style doors virtually any door can be converted to a barn door with special tracks and hangers.
This hardware is now easy to find in a wide range of styles.
Some just won t work.
Create an outer frame on the door with 1x4s.
Is wide enough to cover your door opening with a little overlap.
Cut two 1x4s to the height of your door and two 1x4s seven inches shorter than the width of your door.