Unfinished knotty pine tongue and groove barn wood board 15 pack.
Tongue and groove barn door.
10 pieces of tongue and groove pine 8 ft tall or however tall you want it it comes in 6 ft 8 ft and 12 ft at home depot.
I wanted tongue and groove because pine tends to shrink a lot and i didn t want to see through any cracks that open up over time as the pine shrinks.
Step 1 building the face frame for barn door.
With the right bracing a door made from tongue and groove wood is solid and will hold up over the years.
The tongue and groove shiplap is the base of our door so we trimmed each of those planks to 7 tall.
Here is what we used to make our barn door.
With the right tools these doors are easy and inexpensive to make.
Build an rustic door with tongue and groove wood.
Another option would be ship lap style joints that would also provide the same benefit for shrinking.
You ll need a table or horses and a second person to help to assemble which is the most difficult.
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This video details how to build a barn door using tongue and groove.
I also like this board because it has a beadboard like pattern on one side.
Purchasing interior barn doors is easy and there are many available options to choose from.
These doors are double sided and can be used in an entryway or window that is exposed on both sides unlike a closet or pantry.
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This style of door is attractive and imparts a country feel to the surroundings reminiscent of farms and ranches.
For rustic applications recreation rooms barns shops or even boutiques build a tongue and groove door by bracing it diagonally.
After cutting the tongue and groove shiplap pieces to the length that you want your door in my case 86 inches take 6 of the 7 pieces and working one piece at a time insert the tongue part into the grooves.
How to build a sliding barn door.
First you will need to measure the size of your door opening and determine the width and height you want your door to be.
Consider the different factors in choosing the right barn door from.
We used this one which i was estatic to find because it was about 5 per board.
Our door opening is 4 wide so we built ours to be 4 wide and 7 tall.