How To Make Barn Doors For Windows

If y'all love the rustic flair barn doors can bring to a abode simply aren't ready to supersede an entryway we have the perfect DIY projection for you. We challenged DIYer Jaime Costiglio to come up with a unique and piece of cake way to use befouled doors in your home. She came back with this fantastic concept of using befouled doors as window coverings in a chamber. Check out her project and designs beneath.

Barn doors are everywhere these days and seem to be a trend that may stick around for a while. I took the pop barn door idea and fabricated it into a window covering for my girls' bedroom. Information technology's a great solution for any window where you lot need complete privacy but still want easy access to the window for daylight.

Yous can make the barn door to fit any size window — simply adjust the plans to the dimensions of your window. My favorite part of this project is the hardware. Using inexpensive Simpson Strong-Necktie^® T straps, pulley wheels and a flat rails, I was able to install the befouled door window coverings with ease.

The window coverings slide back and forth on the flat metal rail, which makes it like shooting fish in a barrel for my girls to let in sunlight in the daytime, or to cover the windows when they want more privacy.

Nosotros live in an extremely old farmhouse with wonky windows that are very low to the floor, then these barn-door window coverings are a perfect functional fit for the space. A bath is another space that might benefit from this window treatment. I'll share how to build the befouled door and how I installed the hardware in what follows.

Beneath are materials, tools, a cutting list and footstep-by-step instructions to make the befouled-door window coverings. Please follow all condom procedures recommended by tool manufacturers.

befouled door window coverings plans

Materials (for ane window covering)

(ii) 1x4x8 pine boards
(1) ¼" plywood handy panel
(two) Simpson Potent-Tie^® 66T strap
(4) ¾" hex lag screws
(1) ¾" x 72″ flat steel bar
(four) five/xvi″ ten ¾" steel spacers
(3) iii″ wall screws and mollies
(2) iii″ caster wheels with beam bolts
1¼" pocket-pigsty screws
¾" and 1″ finish nails

Tools

Miter saw
Drill
Pocket-pigsty jig
Nail gun
Dremel^® (or like tool) for cutting apartment steel bar
Measuring tape
Pencil
Sander

Cut List

(ii) 1×4 x 27½" (long sides)
(2) one×4 10 17½" (brusque sides)
(one) ane×4 x 26¾" both ends mitered 45° parallel, cut to fit (commencement diagonal)
(2) one×4 x xiii⅜" one end mitered 45°, cut to fit (second diagonal)
(1) ¼" ten 27 ½" x 22 ½" (backing)

Instructions

Step 1: Brand frame. Adhere the short sides to the long sides using woods glue and 1¼" pocket-hole screws.

Step 2: Adhere the backing to the frame using woods mucilage and ¾" finish nails.

Step iii: Cut the first diagonal to fit, and adhere to backing using wood glue and ane″ terminate nails.

Stride 4: Cut the second diagonal pieces to fit, and attach using wood gum and i″ stop nails.

Finish as desired. I painted my barn doors using white semi-gloss.

The next steps are the hardware and installing the window coverings. Please adapt your installation and hardware based on your infinite and window situation.

To begin, I used the hardware higher up for each barn door. Attach the 66T strap to the door using the hex lag screws.

In one case the T straps are fastened, position the window covering in identify and dry fit with the hardware. You can meet where the caster wheel will adhere at the height of the T strap, leaving nigh ⅜" of cycle to "ride" on the steel bar. Be sure you accept at least 1″ clearance between the top of the barn door and the pulley bicycle for the ¾" steel bar.

Determine the length of the steel bar and cut as needed. I doubled the width of the befouled door plus 3″, which allows enough infinite for the door to open and shut completely.

Predrill holes in the flat steel bar. Employ a new drill flake for best results. You volition brand three holes in the bar, one at each end and one in the middle. Brand sure the hole in the middle sits toward the bottom half of the bar and so the caster bike can easily glide past the steel spacer.

Adhere the steel bar to the window molding and wall. Utilize mollies equally necessary and steel spacers between the molding and bar. You volition demand ii spacers between the wall and the bar to account for the molding thickness.

One time the bar is installed, place the barn door in position and attach the pulley wheel to the T strap using the axle bolts.