Trimming Out Barn Style Sliding Door

We cut the side trim pieces to size and attached them to the side of the barn door with 1 1 4 brad nails and wood glue.

Trimming out barn style sliding door.

Empty wall space next to the opening allows the door to slide freely. Quality hardware is a mustyour barn door will be a focal point in your home so it needs to look great perform flawlessly and. Once you take the peg out the hinge will come loose. You do not need to remove the trim.

Once the side trim was attached we measured and cut the bottom trim to size and attached it with wood glue and 1 1 4 brad nails. The opening will have full trim with 3 5 side casing and a 5 5 header see pic for an example of another door trimmed the same way. Before you install that interior sliding barn door you ve been dreaming about here are some things to consider 1. I m going to install a sliding door on a master ensuite closet opening.

Using only 15 standard 8 foot pine 1x4 boards you can do this too. Removing the doors door hardware taking off the doors should be surprisingly easy. The nice thing about the jeld wen barn door kit is you can install the door right over your existing door trim. There s a peg in the top of each door hinge just pull it out or grab a hammer to help knock it out.

I built this custom sliding barn door using only standard grade 1x4 lumber. You will need to use some spackle we used the quick dry version to fill the area where you remove the previous doors hinges but that is all.