Our doors hang 3 4 above the highest point of the ground and 5 8 below the hardware giving a total height of 82.
How big to build a interior barn door.
Barn doors can fit into nearly any decor.
Even the highest quality plywood often has an uneven and unsightly finish on its sides.
Cut the boards inch shorter than the height of the opening to allow the door to pass over the floor guide.
Designed to cover a 30 inch wide opening with 4 inch casing on either side this door measures 38 inches wide by 2 inches thick by 83 inches tall.
I recommend 2 coats.
This includes the hardware and track.
We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.
Lightly sand before each coat.
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1x6 pine boards for the back.
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Since these doors are heavy he easiest way to construct them is to build the door on the ground first and hang it second.
Measure your barn opening to determine the size of the doors.
Use inexpensive pine from home depot.
Before putting it together sand each board and then coat each board with polyurethane stain.
In this video i ll show you how to build a wooden barn door for under a 100.
For that very reason they have become the door of choice in our new simple house that we are currently building at the farm.
Most barn door sizes fall anywhere between 36 wide on the shorter side by 96 tall on the longer side.
Measure the opening 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.
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.
First build the barn door.
Screw each piece of lumber together.
At just a little over 1000 total square feet in the floor plan space is at a premium.
To begin building your metal barn doors place each 2x6x8 piece of lumber in place to form a large rectangle.
Using a large square we marked and cut the plywood to match the height of the door.
The size will vary depending in your door opening.
We re building sliding barn doors.