Can You Use A Regular Door As A Barn Door

This hardware is now easy to find in a wide range of styles.
Can you use a regular door as a barn door. Measure the width and height of the door. Is tall enough to cover your door opening with a little overlap. A group of friends find this historic door at a local salvage shop and turn it into a sliding barn door. Create an outer frame on the door with 1x4s.
Determine placement of doorknob. You ll need a set of sliding door hardware as well as a door that s large enough to cover your opening. 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. Cut two 1x4s to the height of your door and two 1x4s seven inches shorter than the width of your door.
Murms the word do it myself. 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. Some just won t work. 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.
Is wide enough to cover your door opening with a little overlap. 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. Next install the hardware. The fixtures has been found at a reasonable price on amazon already.
Trade your ordinary interior door for a farm chic sliding barn door with these easy steps.