Love barn doors but not the price of expensive hardware? Then you will love our Sliding Barn Door Plans – they’re free and use easy to find materials!
This is the last day of tutorials in our Barn Door Week – and it’s a good one! Tomorrow we will share a round up of a few of our favorite DIY Barn Doors.
Dean and I really wanted to give you clear instructions for making your own barn door. We went back and forth between step by step instructions and a drawing. In the end we decided it would be best to provide old-school hand-drawn plans. Just click on the plan image below and you’ll be taken to a printable PDF. (Please remember this is for your own personal use and can’t be sold or otherwise modified or distributed.)
MATERIALS
- scooter wheels (with rubber removed) or pulley wheels (disassembled pulleys) qty=2
- 1-1/4″ x 1/4″ x 86-1/8″ long steel flat bar qty=2
- 1-1/2″ x 1/4″ x 84″ long steel flat bar qty=1
- 3″ x 1/8″ x 84″ long steel flat bar qty=1
- 1/2″ x 1/16″ x 2″ long steel tubing qty=7
- 2″ x 6″ x 48″ long wood qty=15
- fitting black iron floor flange 1″ qty=4
- fitting black iron 90 degree elbow 1″ qty=4
- black steel pipe nipple 1″ x close qty=4
- black steel pipe nipple 1″ x 16″ long qty=2
- 1/4″ x 1-1/2″ long plated lag bolts qty=60
- 5/16″ x 3-1/2″ long plated lag bolts qty=7
- #12 x 1-1/4″ long screws qty=16
- 5/16″ x 2″ long – 18 thread plated hex bolts qty=2
- 5/16″ – 18 thread plated hex nuts qty=2
- 5/16″ plated flat washers qty=4
- Minwax Dark Walnut stain
- Rust-Oleum Oil Rubbed Bronze spray paint
- white or light grey paint
- water
- sandpaper
NOTE: Once you’ve drilled all the holes and before assembly, spray paint all of the metal flat bar, the wheels and the lag nuts and bolts with oil-rubbed bronze. Let dry.
If you have any questions, give us a shout in the comments and we’ll try to walk you through them. 🙂
Click on the links below to be taken to each step to build your own DIY Barn Door and DIY Barn Door Track That Won’t Break the Bank!
- Instructions for Grey Wash Wood Finish
- Pipe Fitting Handle Instructions
- Sliding Barn Door Plans (YOU ARE HERE!)
Or click here for our original Upcycled Barn Door Reveal.
xo,
Shannon
I need to create a barn door for an opening doorway that is 10 ” tall x 5′ feet wide. I cannot seem to find the flat steel bar easily. Did you use hot or cold rolled? The sizes are not easily found either. UGH! Please help. Thanks Shannon,
terilk@citlink.net
I meant 10 feet tall. OOPS!
Hi, just wondering if the DIY track squeals or makes any noise when opening and closing the door?
Yes, the track did squeak a bit.
Where can I source the two long steel flat bars for attaching to front of barn door? I already have my track and pulley hardware. For this reason, it would be useful to see the hardware list separated for each part of the door plan. For ex. the design and parts for building the handle could be separated from other aspects of the door, and the track above. For a first timer, it’s hard separating the parts I will use.
Since I have my track, I need to modify your design slightly, ex. place the two bars on the outer edge of each side of the door. That should work fine. Just need to find where to purchase the bars. Also I presume that I will have to drill the holes in the metal bar, and want to know how labour intensive that will be? Thanks for answering me. I’m excited to get started, because I found some awesome wood as you suggested.
Thanks for offering this design.
As we mentioned in the post you can source the metal items from Metal Supermarket. I’m very sorry that you’re having issues with deciphering the parts list. And yes, of course holes will need to be drilled. How long and how labor intensive it is depends on the tools you have and will use.
Love this project! Do you have anything installed to prevent the door from rolling too far and falling off the track? Thanks!
We didn’t…but we had a wall at one end and the door handles would touch the doorway at the other side if it went too far.
Hi Shannon!
I love this barn door!
So I’m planning on a master bath remodel, and I want a barn door. I have this 100yr old pine I got in traverse city last year I want to use. My question is did you glue any of the boards, and I think from the plans you just used the flat iron on one side? So that other side just has the handle correct?
Thanks again
I need a Dean!
Did you use anything besides the door strapping on the boards? No wood glue or anything else necessary?
We only used the strapping, which is quite enough. 🙂
I love this! Where do you find 86 1/8″ long flat steel bars? I’m having a difficult time locating that length.