The only direction a barn door should go is to the barn. Hinged doors work very well in a home.

ha ha. Too late for that. We like the look and can't change now

Give us an update in a few years and let us know if you still like them after living with them.

We have 4 barn doors in our home. We built and moved in 2 years ago tomorrow and I still like them. We are farmers and this is a metal building with a barn on one end, shop, and house. So I guess we did keep the barn doors in the barn.

We used the soft close both ways on 1 and that one is my favorite.

On 2 we used soft close one way and they are fine but the quality of the rollers is not quite the same to me.

The last door does not have soft close on it and we will be changing it this winter when we tend to work on indoor projects.

Are you purchasing and installing the rollers yourself?

I'm purchasing the hardware but our contractor will install it

If you can try them out before you buy I would recommend it. I bought 2 from Amazon that are fine and function well. The one from Home Depot is actually quite a bit better in terms of smoothness and it is pretty much silent. It was also the easiest to install even though it was the first one we did.

@Lynne, for what it is worth, we love barn doors too!! Lots of people do!

@Lynne, do you have any barn doors in your home now?

the only place I would put a warning on barn doors is the bathroom. We rented a beautiful home for a week with a barn door on the bathroom. There was about an 1.5" gap so light and sounds escape and you can see into the bathroom, lol. Not as private as we would prefer. So I would just put that warning in for those who want barn doors on bathroom so they know going in the potential issues. But otherwise, your house, your choice.

They take up so much room on walls. People somehow think they are saving space, but they are costing themselves space. No art, or light switches, or anything else, can go where they stack. But you’re still required to have outlets there. So if you have to plug anything in, it gets super awkward, and even dangerous, as you risk pinching the cords. If you choose to have moldings, the doors project from the walls even further, and admit light and sound even more than standard. If you choose to not have moldings, then that’s an expensive whole house upgrade. Because choosing molding every where but behind the doors is cheesy looking.

The only positive is the no door swing impacting either room. That’s it. The heavy duty soft close is the only way to go if you do choose them.

We LOVE our barn door and so does our millennial aged niece and nephew and all their friends who are frequent visitors.

We have a soft close- one direction. Saves tons of room, a swing door gobbles up so much space and storage.

And yes, it's for our bathroom wall which is adjacent to a hallway. No problems.