You ll need a set of sliding door hardware as well as a door that s large enough to cover your opening.
How to convert existing door as barn door.
Trade your ordinary interior door for a farm chic sliding barn door with these easy steps.
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.
Create an outer frame on the door with 1x4s.
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.
You can find the barn door hardware that we used here and the handle that we used here.
Once the putty dried we touched them up with a little paint.
We removed the existing doors and filled the screw holes with wood putty.
Trim along this score line using a circular saw for a precise.
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.
To do this measure the door lengthwise and score a line across the bottom.
If you choose to leave the door trim like we did you can used a pre primed 1 6 pine board for attaching the barn door track.