To save money she used plumbing pipe instead of standard barn door hardware and she saved time by having some of her lumber cut at the hardware store.
How to build a sliding barn door for a bathroom.
Whether for the bathroom bedroom or laundry room entry deciding to build a barn wood door can ensure added privacy and style.
Which means fewer pieces and cuts and that means easier to build.
Before you start shopping for barn door hardware take a careful look at the area where you would like to install the barn.
Barn doors are super trendy but often one of the places that people want to use them is on a bathroom.
A header for the door could be as simple as a 1 x 4 board attached with 3 1 2 screws into the studs in the wall.
Diy sliding barn door hardware is available in all manner of styles and budgets and the door options are limitless from salvage finds to original diy creations like this one a mix of pallet wood and common cedar.
But their purpose is the same.
I designed this barn door to be visually sleek and modern.
To save money she used plumbing pipe instead of standard barn door hardware and she saved time by having some of her lumber cut at the hardware store.
Here s how to save your money by taking the diy approach to building a barn door.
Take it down and replace it with a sliding barn door.
Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers.
Take off the existing door trim and re trim the door building the header into the trim.
This white sliding door is excellent for the bathroom and looks beautiful from both sides.
Barn doors have a distinctive look usually featuring a wooden board that goes across diagonally and a two layer frame that adds depth to its design.
Closing off a room from prying eyes and giving you an extra barrier between you and the rest of the world or just the people in your home.
How to build a sliding barn door for less money 03 13 hgtv remodeling expert laurie march built a sliding barn door for privacy between a master bedroom and bathroom.
Because the door was going to be used in an area where moisture might be an issue she used a high gloss paint to.
This is what we did on these closet sliding barn doors and the double sliding barn door i built for the bathroom.
A sliding bathroom barn door can be distinctly different from your run of the mill door with hinges.
We actually have a barn door between our master bedroom and bathroom and get a ton of questions about it so i thought that it would be fun to weigh in on what we think.
You can find the plans for such a door on jennasuedesign if you ever want to build one yourself from scratch.
I was able to build this one in about 30 minutes.
Hgtv remodeling expert laurie march shows how she built a sliding barn door to add privacy between a master bedroom and bathroom.