Can You Use A Regular Door As A Barn Door

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Can you use a regular door as a barn door.

You ll need a set of sliding door hardware as well as a door that s large enough to cover your opening. Is wide enough to cover your door opening with a little overlap. Measure the width and height of the door. Next install the hardware.

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. However not all doors can be barn doors. A group of friends find this historic door at a local salvage shop and turn it into a sliding barn door.

This hardware is now easy to find in a wide range of styles. Cut two 1x4s to the height of your door and two 1x4s seven inches shorter than the width of your door. The fixtures has been found at a reasonable price on amazon already. 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.

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. 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. 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. Create an outer frame on the door with 1x4s.

Turn a regular door into a sliding barn door.