Framing Barn Door Opening

Removing the doors door hardware taking off the doors should be surprisingly easy.

Framing barn door opening.

A barn door is a door slab that slides left and right on wall mounted hardware stout rollers suspended from a steel bar in front of the door opening. As the distance between the king studs. A barn door can free up space compared to a swinging door but it also needs room to slide along its track. Framing rough opening sizes are really quite simple.

Maintain a simple consistent nailing pattern. Just add 2 to the width of the actual door size. You will need to add 1 2 of plywood between the 2x4 s to get the right wall thickness of 3 1 2. The door will slide left to right.

If you re mounting a single door you need wall space on one side of your opening that is at least the width of the door so it can slide completely open. How to measure for a barn door in three steps using a tape measure begin at the left edge of the opening and measure straight across to the right edge. We built and installed one as the finishing touch of a kitchen remodel and we love it. The hardware needs to installed along the top of the wall but there isn t enough clearance to the far left so i think the best solution is to frame out the opening to 1 make the opening smaller 2 install a header so there is enough clearance along the top to install the hardware.

Unless a room s baseboard will be flush with its wall which is atypical but trendy right now then frame that wall normally and finish with a cased opening instead of wrapping with drywall use jamb material with trim at the perimeter. Door widths vary but an easy way to size the rough opening is to use the door width plus 5 in. If the doorway has moldings measure from outside edge to outside edge to determine the proper door width add about 4 to 6 inches to your measurement. And avoid toenailing when possible.

To make the door header the top of the door frame cut two 2x4s to the same length as the width of the original opening and nail them securely together. There s a peg in the top of each door hinge just pull it out or grab a hammer to help knock it out. This is the actual thickness of a 2x4. You should add 2 1 2 to the height of the actual door.

However barn doors aren t just for barns.