How to Make & Install a Barn Door | EASY!

WE are going to be making a barn door today! This is a unique build where we use tongue and groove boards for the main part of the door. The grooves, lightweight material, and simple slide in design makes this an EASY diy project that pretty much anyone can do.

The materials list in the video will also demonstrate just how simple this barn door build is - there are barely any tools needed.

The tongue and groove boards are 1in x 6in x 8ft and then cut to the height needed to cover the door.

Making this wooden sliding door was the best thing we could have done for our laundry room as we now have so much extra room without having a standard swinging door in the way. Eventually we will finish remodeling the laundry room and push some of the machines back more into the wall. More to come on that later! Subscribe!

I really hope you enjoyed the barn door build and learned how to install it yourself!

See how simple that is! Just make a header board if you need one that has the rail sit on it. This just needs to be the length of the rail or longer.

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Tools Used:
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Barn Door Hardware:

18g Brad Nails 1 1/4":

Gorilla Wood Glue:

Minwax Dark Walnut Stain:

Minwax Clear Coat:

Minwax Pre Stain Wood Conditioner:

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[KellyConcepts]

Would you consider using a barn door for a bathroom? Or do you need privacy? 😬
Asking to see how my house would do on the market if we added a barn door to the bathroom and decided to sell the house..
Thoughts??

[limjahey]

These houses are always so clean and makes the install look so easy. What they don’t show is tools and crap everywhere and me dangling off a ladder cussing up a storm because my wife can’t figure out which tool I am asking for.

[matthewmaher]

Update just bought all the wood with additional pieces for diagonals. It costs $128 for the wood only and good luck finding decent tongue and groove lumber not warped/twisted, I had to set lumber and weights on mine to get most of the spring out of it. Regardless, I still got a custom made door for a larger and taller archway (my door is 45"x90") for at least half the price for a cheap prefab one. Great video!

[TrentMRobertson]

Ratchet straps in lieu of long clamps was a brilliant idea!

[sammyg]

I almost, well was about to get a custom door made to have the width of 44”. After seeing this I’m going to make my own. I have all the tools needed. Great inspiration / video!!! 👊🏾

[jdneilso]

Just wanted to say thank you. With this video, and the instructions with the mounting kit, I was able to complete my own barn door project.

[cgrimes]

For extra strength holding the boards together, you should have run the three horizontal pieces all the way across and then shortened the length of your two outside vertical pieces to fit in between the 3 horiztonal pieces. The reason being is that the 2 vertical pieces are doing nothing to strengthen the door. They just are trim on the outside.

[congoparrot]

i just made this. the only change I would suggest is that the horizontal supports go all the way across. i did like yours and realized the two ends were not supported and nearly broke the two end tongue and groove boards. so had to go to lowes and buy six L brackets and put them on the vertical supports connecting to the 3 horizontal supports.

[kathrynb]

Easy peazy! Doing that tomorrow! I've been procrastinating...silly me.😊

Hello my friend.
Installation and construction of the barn door. I watched a successful study. It always works great. thank you for sharing. See you. Great greetings.

[avadarlin]

and he didn't have to remove the old door jam! Definitely trying this...

[harshasetty]

Just finished this build. All in it was a few hundred to a thousand dollars cheaper than buying a pre-fab from an online vendor! My only comments would be that I opted for a 2x4 header board instead of a 1" since the track hardware never aligned with the studs. It just seemed that the 2x4 would hold the track/door better than the 1x6. Thanks for posting the links to the parts.

[Rogueknowledge]

I can feel how smooth that ride on the track feels like 🔥🔥

[hecalex]

How do you measure how high the rail needs to go so when you attach the bearings to the door it ends up at just the right height

[richdelgzz]

This is definitely the easier of the videos even considering building the door LOL others remove the casing which I am trying to avoid doing. I might just use wood filler and paint to hide the old hinge areas.

[WhiteLabWorkshop]

That barn door really looks awesome! The style, color, and hardware come together nicely. Great stud finding tip too!

[chadfield]

Great video! 
Great idea on the blue tape trick, will definitely use that little trick when I hang my barn door 🙂

[tylerballard]

Best barn door video I’ve watched ❤Thank you for sharing!

[ksneek]

I would love to see another video of you doing EXACTLY that but instead of for a door making them barn shutters for windows (to open and close and let light in as you please)

[StanCrafted]

Looks great, Shaun...nice video to...I really like the zoom in on the materials...nice touch!