Making Wood Barn Doors

Today i have a beginners guide to building a barn door with free plans and a video tutorial.

Making wood barn doors.

Use a flat edge to draw the lines that will serve as a guide as you cut the material to size. Line the panels up side by side and mark were you want to trim them to length. Thicker wood will make the door better at keeping heat in but will also make it heavier. Draw an outline of your door on your wood paneling.

Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers. We inserted the panels into the door centering the panels in the opening. It only required a total of 8 cuts. After checking to see that the ends of the boards are still lined up measure diagonally from opposite corners to make sure the door is square.

Diy sliding barn door hardware is available in all manner of styles and budgets and the door options are limitless from salvage finds to original diy creations like this one a mix of pallet wood and common cedar. Select the room and door you want to swap out for the barn wood door. To hang it you can follow the instructions found in the barn door hardware kit you choose. Includes free building plans tips on selecting wood how to build and hang a sliding barn door yourself.

Of course once you have it constructed you will need to fill the holes sand and paint it and hang it. A barn door in 30 minutes. Building a barn door is not hard if you have some basic woodworking skills and good directions. Barn doors that swing out need to be mounted on very large and strong hinges and sliding barn doors need to be properly balanced and hung on high quality hardware in order to work properly.

Remove the door you are planning to replace and measure the door opening to determine your door size and how much appearance board you will need. Then we drilled a couterbore and held the panels in place with a fender washer and a 1 kreg screw. Once you have measured the opening add at least 2 inches to the width to ensure you are covering sides that don t have trim. Screw scraps of wood to the 2x4s on both sides of the door to hold the boards together while you add the horizontal rail.