We got these doors from Home Depot, which included the doors and the track and hardware. It took one extra step, but wasn’t difficult at all, and didn’t require any additional hardware.īy expanding our search to single door sets, we were able to find the style we wanted at a price we could afford. Then we realized we could just buy two separate door kits and hang them together. While we were looking for the perfect doors, we found plenty of double barn door sets, but they were out of our price range. If you make a purchase, I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. We plan on adding 6″ white baseboards in this sunken dining/living area, which will help the doors feel like they’re not floating in space on the wall. (I’ve got big plans for that room, but that’s for a later blog post.)Īlso, the designer in me feels compelled to add this side note. I wanted to be able to let light flow through both rooms, but still allow for some separation of the TV room, especially as the kids get older and will be having more movies nights and sleepovers. We chose a modern style door with frosted glass and traditional hardware. But first, let’s admire the doors, shall we? After Barn Doors I’ve got a few suggestions for you, if you’re thinking of taking on such a project. Hanging the new doors was a little tougher, but definitely doable. It was surprisingly easy to get rid of them, just a few screws and they were lying in a heap on my floor. The oldest tried to be soft and quiet about it, but then instead of a big racket I’d hear clack… clack… clack… clack… CLACK. My youngest would just throw them closed, like ripping off a bandaid. I could even tell which kid was up by how they closed the doors. They thought they would close the doors to keep the sound of the TV from waking us, but inevitably we’d be startled awake by the sound of the doors clattering closed. I have soon-to-be fond memories of my kids waking up early on Saturdays and sneaking into the TV room to watch cartoons. They served a good function of closing off the TV room, but they also felt a little(!) dated and made a horrible clacking sound whenever they opened or closed. These accordion doors came straight out of the late seventies or early eighties. But it’s finally done, and they turned out even better than I imagined! Before Barn Doors Then it was just a matter of getting a few other priorities taken care of before we could get to this project. Now, I know I’m not the first girl ever to put barn doors in her house, but this is something I’ve been wanting to do for years, and when we moved into this house, I knew just where I’d put them. After getting a good fit, I began cutting dados in each of the rails and stiles making quarter inch incremental cuts until reaching a final dado depth of one inch.Today I’m taking a break from my Flip House posts, because I’m just so excited to share this with you that I couldn’t wait. Remember when making these adjustments there will be two cuts made on the thickness so it’s important to make very slight adjustments with each test cut. The first test run was too tight so I made a slight adjustment to my table saw fence further from the blade. I then used the test piece to check if the dado was wide enough for the boards used for the center panel and made adjustments to my fence as needed. This should slightly increase the width of the dado as well as insure that it is dead center of the board. Once I made the first cut, I flipped the board around and ran it through again with the opposite face against the fence. Using a test piece the same thickness as my rails and stiles I cat a dado to check my fence setting. The cut only needs to be close to center and does not have to be exact. I set the fence to cut a dado at the center of the thickness of the rails and stiles. Over at the table saw I installed my dado stack to cut a dado an eighth of an inch less than the thickness of the boards that ill be using for the center panel.
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