Be remodeling two of our bedrooms in the near future and i was seriously thinking about replacing the outdated shutter closet doors with barn doors.
Tiny house closing barn door closet on one side.
The traditional swinging door typically needs 9 feet or more of space to function properly.
How bypass barn doors work.
We made one big barn door on same metal pipes made it to close off hallway.
We recommend 1 1 2 to 2 of overhang on each side.
I m sure you re happy to have planned for barn doors in the new house.
30 opening 34 wide door.
My plan is to install one long track so that the doors can both slide to the middle when they need to be open at the same time sort of like your installation if there were 2 openings on either end with solid wall in the middle.
But you did and now we can all benefit from it.
If there s no wall space on one side of your door opening or if your opening extends from one wall to the other think closet bypass doors could be the answer.
The height is a bit trickier based on the casing and header.
Depending on your hardware the sound of the door sliding on the track can resemble rumbling thunder.
Why sliding barn doors.
We just did a sliding barn door for our guest bedroom closet and i love the way it looks.
I love your painted door great idea.
While this may not be an issue for large houses more space starved homes will find it more than a little problematic.
We actually built the hardware ourselves and it was a pain good call on buying it we ll probably buy it if we do more barn door in the house.
I have a tiny bedroom with 2 doors toward each end of a 12 wall one to a bathroom and one to a closet.
Great if you want to catch your kids sneaking out of the house but otherwise not so much.
Last week in my guest room reveal i mentioned the closet doors and how they were one of my biggest diy fails to date.
See more ideas about barn doors sliding doors home.
Since the door sits off the wall in order to slide it must be wider that the opening to fully hide the opening.
And finally this is a tiny beef but some sliding doors are pretty loud when they open and shut.
Thank you so much for all of your tips.
Mounting one track in front of another using a bypass bracket allows doors to overlap.
On this kind of door the exterior trim is wide enough that you will still see the frame around the door despite the overlap.
It will look fine i have a larger door on a barn track will take a photo from the kitchen and post it for you.
In the most common bypass applications two doors run on separate parallel tracks overlapping each other.
Barn doors come with both functional and aesthetic benefits.
I have an interior barn door that is.