Pine and Plywood were combined to create a Herringbone patterned sliding timber barn door.
The project
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.
Step 2
Create the frame of the door - got these cut to size at Bunnings to reduce the work at home.
Step 3
Flip and get the centre 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 first stain - three in total. Sand back to wood due to some unevenness with the stain.
Step 8
Complete two 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 other side has a handle.
Tools and materials
Materials used in the project:
Tools used in the project:
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