Feature barn door, Wife wanted a herringbone barn door to separate the kids retreat from the main living and dining area.
The design phase went as follows:
- Measure the area i need to cover
- do a rough drawing for the door to confirm sizes
- confirm how the door is going to hang off the wall - we had to get a 4.5m piece of wood as a backer to hang the door off.
- do a comparison of buying and making it - cheaper to make it.
- get as much of the wood cut to size at bunnings to save you time at home.
Steps
Step 1
Order and collect the materials - order the rails.
Purchase materials 
Purchase materials
Step 2
Create the Frame of the door - got these cuts to size at bunnings to reduce the work at home.
Step 3
Flip and get the center of the arrow.
Step 4
Finish the arrow.
Step 5
Finish the rest of the design, trim all the hanging pieces, fill in the nail holes with wood putty and sand to 240.
Step 6
Flip and complete the easy side, fill and sand again.
Step 7
Complete the 1st stain - 3 in total (hand to sand back to wood due to some unevenness with the stain.
Step 8
- Complete 2 more coats of the stain with sanding in-between coats.
- Used a thin pine for the ends
- We did a 2mm line at the bottom of the door for the runner
- I got a 4.5M long piece of pine at 45mm wide painted it white and used that as the runner mount
- Measured the height of the door - height of the runner and the total height including the runners attached to the door.
- Mounted the rail and hooked the door in.
Step 9
Door complete, the order side has a handle.
