Convert French Door To Barn Door
A hammer and screwdriver are the best tools to help pull the bolts out of the hinges.
Convert french door to barn door. I got the doors all painted behr pure black in a satin finish added gila frosted privacy film to the glass installed the glass in the doors and got the trim around the doorway wood filled caulked and painted. When you have the door removed from the hinges take off the doorknob. Remove the old slab door from the hinges. We updated an existing door but this project can easily be done with a brand new door.
Whether it is a home we are buying or building a kitchen remodel a dream vacation a nursery for a new baby or a new office all your own does that sound familiar the it never is done soon enough. It led to the remodel of our laundry room. And since i re used the doors i only needed to buy the barn door hardware which is much less expensive than buying brand new doors. You may have to wiggle them a bit but once they come off remove the wheels from the doors and remove the track from the closet opening.
Insert the rollers into the upper track and hang the door in place. They should be hanging from the track by wheels at the tops of the doors. Repeat steps 3 and 4 if hanging more than one sliding door. To do this measure the door lengthwise and score a line across the bottom.
Check with the level to ensure the door s are plumb and level. The first step to convert sliding doors to hinged doors is to remove the sliding doors from their track. My diy sliding french barn doors with the custom circle pattern fretwork panels are finally finished. Sliding doors have the same framework as ordinary hollow interior doors and accept hinges the same way.
I removed the casing and down sized the opening by 1 1 2 sides and top and finished it off with drywall bull nose corners. The vision to transform french doors into a barn door was an accident. That way i get full access to the closet space without taking up any extra space in the room. Ensure that the doors can move easily in the path created by the upper and lower door tracks guides.
So i decided that converting the bifold doors into barn doors would be the way to go.