BARN DOORS

I would love to use this somewhere!

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THICK WALL/DOOR IN BRICK WALL

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The deep wood tones of the closet’s sliding barn door create a focal point in the master bedroom, and the barn hardware provides easy access to the closet area without infringing on the room’s available space. The couple designed and built the door.

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10. Classic screen door. There is something about the squeak and bang of a simple screen door that says summer. And even the most basic models will do the trick — just paint the frame to match your interior door and make sure there’s a working latch.

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6. Compact sliding screen door. Fitting a door and screen door into a narrow passageway can pose quite a challenge. These creative homeowners found a solution by using a sliding screen door that tucks into a pocket behind the refrigerator when open. The barn-style hardware and cheery red paint job up the charm.

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Hutker Architects Save Email 1. Barn-style screen door. If you love the charm of barn doors, why not have one customized to use as a screen door? Though you can have barn-style doors custom made in just about any size, they are perfect for extra-large openings, ushering in maximum light and breezes.

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Former barn in the Netherlands. It took four years of planning and work for Jacco Fontein and Grieteke de Leeuw to transform their property, a former farm with a separate home and milk barn, into a single residence. The couple brought a touch of the property’s history into the design by using a sliding wood barn door as an alternative to curtains.

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reused old bricks on the walls and transformed old wood fence pickets into a barn door,

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Creative reuse in Montreal. Dominique Leroux and Anne-Marie McSween renovated their Montreal triplex using as many materials salvaged from the interior as possible. The frosted glass on the barn door is made from the home’s old windows, and the corrugated metal was repurposed from a former project done by their architect.

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Jensen bought the old pine and chalkboard door seen in the previous photo five years ago from a woman in Portland. “I had no idea what I was going to do with it at the time,” she says. “While building this home, I knew it would be the perfect sliding pantry door in the kitchen

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Jensen bought the old pine and chalkboard door seen in the previous photo five years ago from a woman in Portland. “I had no idea what I was going to do with it at the time,” she says. “While building this home, I knew it would be the perfect sliding pantry door in the kitchen

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X-trim detailing on these doors creates a barn or hayloft look.

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In this kitchen a small barn door covered in chalkboard paint slides to hide a storage area.

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Barn doors. Sliding barn-door panels on overhead tracks have taken the design world by storm. Use reclaimed wood to warm up a kitchen with a barn-like patina.

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14. Barn doors. Want to make a major farmhouse-style gesture? Swap out a regular interior door for a barn-style sliding door — it’s especially great for adding architectural interest to a plain-white-box new build. Before you make the swap, measure carefully to be sure you will have enough room to fully open the sliding door.

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Horizontal look barn door in more sophisticated home.

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Christina Katos The finishing touch to my barn door was actually drawer hardware from Pottery Barn. It had to be the right scale, so this took a bit of searching. I wanted something with a backplate to create the look of a more substantial door pull.

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A floor guide from Home Depot keeps the bottom of the door in place. The rubber circular section at the top gently keeps the door from banging around.

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We made a wooden pelmet box (cornice board) with leftover baseboard. It runs the entire width of the doorway and extends to the left to hide the entire closet track. The pelmet box wraps around each side as well and keeps the door from rolling off the track on either end.

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The more coats you apply, the richer the color. I just kept applying coats till I got the depth of color I wanted.

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Christina Katos I had planned to paint the door white but ultimately decided I liked seeing the character of the wood. I ended up going with Minwax’s White Wash Pickling stain, which added just a white tint.

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Christina Katos I wanted something simple and clean looking that would not compete with the board and batten throughout the rest of the room. We added trim to the top and bottom of the door for stability and attached a diagonal piece for more barn door style. We attached rollers to the top of the door and mounted it onto the track.

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Christina Katos I had a sheet of exterior house siding cut to fit the doorway. These sheets are preassembled with tongue and groove joints and are easy to cut to any length and width

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I went to Home Depot and picked up a simple closet track for $40. I extended the door molding to the left of the door frame to accommodate the track and cut the track to size. I mounted the track above the doorway.

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Reality struck when I realized a barn door with intricate hardware would not fit in my basement. My ceiling was only 7 feet high. I was still determined and took the chance that maybe my perfect barn door could be more about the door and less about the hardware.

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