Add the lower stiles and rail leaving a 1 inch channel for the floor guide that.
Make barn doors for garage.
Adhere the upper stiles below it flush to the.
My garage door is 9 by 11 and hard to find any good looking doors.
Living in a remodeled farmhouse we have lots of little nooks and crannies that i m always trying to make function better.
Sliding barn doors are extremely popular in home design.
I bought carriage look doors for my house love them and the way they look.
In this case you can just use the hinge to make the door swinging if you do not much time to install the rails.
Sliding barn style doors for the lean to on the garage.
First item of business was to break down all these boards.
The simplest way to build a door is to use 1x10 t g barn siding for the door and regular straight edge 1x10 barn siding for trims and cross bucks.
Let s set the frames off to.
Tools needed for building a sliding barn door.
If needed you can substitute 1x10 t g boards for 1x8 1x12 or even 2x6 or 2x8 boards.
We started by cutting all the boards for the.
The ones we used and the ones i wish we had purchased.
Sliding barn style doors for the lean to on the garage.
To determine the door width add at least two inches to the width of the opening or to the outside.
Now that i am remodeling my barn i wanted a set of doors to match.
How to build a sliding barn door supplies needed for building a sliding barn door.
They are great when traditional swinging doors are cumbersome.
I searched and searched the internet for door plans or ideas very little help.
Otherwise using rails will give sturdier garage doors and excellent durability because the doors will be opened by following the trails only.
So building a sliding barn door was the perfect solution for a recent small space dilemma.
Add adhesive and set the top rail flush along the top of the boards.
Here are the materials we used.
Add filler strips use a miter saw to cut the 15 filler strips according to the cut list.
Make sure to get t g boards for the door itself and regular boards for all of the trims.
The last step of making a swing out garage doors is installing the door opener.