How To Make Your Own Sliding Door

Choose your barn door hardware before determining the door height.

How to make your own sliding door.

14 steps to building your own sliding barn doors step 1. Pocket doors for closets. Check out this post for a great tutorial on how to hang your sliding barn door. Save space and add an architectural design element with sliding pocket doors.

Place the level on top of the door. 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. Pick the right closet door that is functional and complements your style. Customize your sliding closet doors to be a perfect fit for your home family and lifestyle.

Your barn door is now ready to hang. See my other finds from past shows here and here. Hang the door step 11 13 before you begin measure the width of the door from the outside edges of the casing then order a hardware kit with a track twice that width. And voila another sliding barn door built.

Now add 2 to the width of your door. It seems like it will be easy but in all reality the more hands the merrier. Originally i wanted to hang it for our pantry door but that didn t work so we decided to make it slide across the opening to our. How to make your own sliding barn door by sweet maple september 15 2014 during one of my trips to the christie antique show i found an old door that was picked up from a diner they were tearing down.

In the pictures below my handle had not yet come. Much easier to do than you might think. Level mark this step is best done with two if not three people. You can add more overlap for extra privacy.

Build the door steps 2 10. Cut your two sheets of plywood usually available in 4 feet wide by 8 feet long into the exact dimensions of the wood frame which will also be the dimensions of your diy sliding door. Hold the door in place and mark holes for your screws to attach the plumbing pieces to the wall you don t have to mark them but if for any reason the door shifts it s easier to know where things line up. Cut pieces for diy modern sliding door frame.

Check the measuring instructions or ask the manufacturer for help. To finish it off i added a 14 square cast iron handle pull. Plan for a 2 day project. You can add to the height if you want but don t have to.