Sand the boards with at least 100 grit sandpaper and sand a slight bevel to the corners so they aren t so sharp.
Make a sliding barn door out of existing door.
You ll need a set of sliding door hardware as well as a door that s large enough to cover your opening.
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To get this hinged barn door diy project party started begin by gently removing the interior door trim with a pry bar.
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If you missed the reveal with all the before and afters make sure you check it out.
Measure the top and install the railing system.
Sliding doors should extend at least an inch beyond the sides of the opening that don t have trim or an inch beyond the moldings of openings with trim.
Trade your ordinary interior door for a farm chic sliding barn door with these easy steps.
Trim any added door length.
To determine the door width add at least two inches to the width of the opening or to the outside dimensions of the door trim.
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In this diy tutorial we ll show you how to use an old door to create a beautiful diy barn door with a herringbone chevron style pattern.
You can choose whatever width you d like whether wide or narrow.
You can find the barn door hardware that we used here and the handle that we used here.
Clamp the top and bottom wood boards in place temporarily.
Cut the top and bottom wood boards to length of 31 7 8 or tho the width of your existing door and clamp them in place.
Converting a hinged door to a sliding door.
Next install the hardware.
A group of friends find this historic door at a local salvage shop and turn it into a sliding barn door.
We then cut other pieces to create the barn door design.
Once the putty dried we touched them up with a little paint.
Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers.
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The first thing we did was cut the underlayment into strips using a table saw.
Once cut we laid them out on the door in an arrangement we liked.
We removed the existing doors and filled the screw holes with wood putty.
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If you choose to leave the door trim like we did you can used a pre primed 1 6 pine board for attaching the barn door track.