First you will need to measure the size of your door opening and determine the width and height you want your door to be.
Diy tongue and groove barn door.
If you face nail be sure to fill in any brad holes with wood filler.
Materials for building a tongue and groove barn door here is what we used to make our barn door.
We ended up using 6 total boards per door and cut the ends off so the final measurement came out to 35 wide enough to cover each side of our hallway door opening by a few inches.
Tongue and groove boards are available in 1 6 and 1 8 so the number of boards and size will be based on how wide you want your finished door.
Hammer the tongue into the groove for a tight fit.
I would purchase a few extra just in case you make a mistake.
10 pieces of tongue and groove pine 8 ft tall or however tall you want it it comes in 6 ft 8 ft and 12 ft at home depot.
Drill 3 8 hole thru the groove and tongue and glue in a 3 8 dowel or pin.
Secure the 1 1 4 brad nails into the back of the main frame by either face nailing them or going through the tongue.
I purchased mine at lowe s for 5 58 each and used 8 boards for the door 3 for the frame and 2 for the british brace arrow look so 13 total per door.
How to build a sliding barn door.
This door above is made from 1 8 tongue and groove pine boards.
Lay all of your pine tongue and groove out.
We used this one which i was estatic to find because it was about 5 per board.
Our door opening is 4 wide so we built ours to be 4 wide and 7 tall.
The tongue and groove shiplap is the base of our door so we trimmed each of those planks to 7 tall.
Build an rustic door with tongue and groove wood.
And yes you could build this door from straight boards without the tongue and groove as well.
For rustic applications recreation rooms barns shops or even boutiques build a tongue and groove door by bracing it diagonally.
After cutting the tongue and groove shiplap pieces to the length that you want your door in my case 86 inches take 6 of the 7 pieces and working one piece at a time insert the tongue part into the grooves.
The center is the only spot that has glue all the way thru touching both sides of groove and tongue.