Small bathroom door options - French door? Barn door?
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Comments (5)If it's the 'flimsy' feel of regular pocket doors that you object to, please know that good doors (solid wood) and good hardware really to fix that problem. If it's the barn door look you're after, I'd think insulating the walls and choosing a solid wood door would be plenty good enough. And a bath fan would also help mask any noises......See MoreBarn door for a bathroom? Please share your pictures
Comments (20)Just one point about installing a pocket door where the spaces between the thin little studs are backed up with a sheet of plywood behind the drywall. You can also skip the drywall entirely and cover directly with plywood right from the get-go. Nobody would have a problem finishing that surface, neither with stain and lacquer, or with a skim coat of mud. Solves any base trim problems too, especially for amateurs with no special equipment like nailers and such. Good plywood, maybe even veneered, but not OSB or MDF....See MoreConvert French doors to barn door
Comments (25)Allison, I can’t help you with the framing part but it looks like your situation is similar to my office dilema. Maybe this post will give you ideas. I have a converted sitting room to office that I needed doors to cover a 60 inch opening. I couldn‘t do a pocket door due to the walls being finished and electrical in Them. I didn’t want two French doors swinging INTO the room and taking up precious floor space. I settled on french doors hung up on a barn door track. I don’t care that barn doors are ”going out of style”, I love them. We mounted them inside my office as they would be open most of the time. And closed during conf calls. We chose glass because my husbands office which is next door to mine has French doors and we wanted to be consistent. I dealt with the issue of the 1” gap between the trim and the door by adding a combinEd two pieces of molding to sit in the outsides of the doors to meet up with the door trim -and ended up with a 1/8-1/4“ gap. Essentially I added trim to the outside of the door. You can’t see it from the hallway, and from the office it just looks like a 1/2” trim piece. I added trim above the door (to decrease the height of the opening) to hide the rolling bar from the hallway. And I added floor guides to keep the doors snug to the wall where I want them without scratching the trim or the door. These pictures are a few weeks old and don’t show the finished install, but gives you an idea of the Work in progress. I can’t post current ones as I’m enameling the cabinetry at the moment. My advice to you is to keep looking and doing research for a barn door solution that works for you, if that is what you want. We scheduled our handy man to come out and install the doors, but he is booked out til August. So my husband and I hung them ourselves a few weeks ago ((work in progress- you can see in the pic the electrical switches on the wall. In this case the door trim gives us enough clearance to slide over them. I found that I can put a 1/2” thick painting to the right of the doors. I place the white cabinet a few inches from the wall, in front of the left door As I needed the space and makes use of the wall. The left door is able to snuggly slide behind it. )) It took several hours, but w patience and lots of double checking math, it worked for us....See MoreSmall kitchen pantry, need help if barn door would be a good option?
Comments (3)The clock is too big for the spot doors that are standard height would help, even if the space below is smaller. i think a full size barn door could work....See Morealex9179
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