How To Make A Dutch Barn Door

Check out this diy from remodelaholic and get all the steps you need to create your own rustic dutch barn door.

How to make a dutch barn door.

Dutch doors are a beautiful addition to your barn. And for children the open top of the dutch door can also make a great puppet theater. Feeling like putting your carpentry skills to use. Since standard interior doors come with three hinges only one additional hinge needs to be added.

Double the barn door double the love. Two to support the top panel and two to support the bottom panel. Building 4 x7 pine dutch door. The basics of this project are adding a hinge cutting the door adding trim and painting.

It s really that easy. Creating them is a bit more difficult than simply hanging a common barn door. Build a stylish diy dutch barn door from scratch to your custom measurements. Take your barn door to the next level with this dutch door.

Diy dutch barn door by remodelaholic. Dutch doors require four hinges to ensure proper safe function. To build one 4 x7 dutch door without window you would need to purchase enough of white pine or cedar boards and door hardware. The top and bottom can open separately from each other or the sections can be opened as one door.

The lower section makes a perfect baby gate or pet gate. When i used to build doors out of white pine i would use 1x10 t g boards for the door itself and 1x10 square edge pine boards for outside inside trims and cross bucks. After i designed the barn door baby gate for the stairs i realized that i could add the same type of door up above and make it into a dutch barn door. Our cutting instructions provide dimensions for a pair of dutch style barn doors for a door opening 4 feet wide and 7 feet tall if your door opening is different than this you will need to carefully sketch out the rough opening and calculate the dimensions of the frame parts the horizontal rails and vertical stiles and siding pieces based on your dimensions.

Don t forget the charming shelf on the lower half of your dutch door. But it is well worth the trouble to view the final result. Once the original door is removed place the new hinge up against door frame roughly 30 above the floor. The framework on dutch doors is eye catching and their use guarantees better ventilation in your barn.

It s a unique feature and is an attractive way to incorporate a pet or baby gate between two rooms.