On the rail, there is a door stop...can you slide it to the right?

No offense intended, but if that was mine I would remove the barn door and hardware and install a regular, close-fitting door.

IMO barn doors don’t work well in houses. Heck, they don’t always work well in barns. One rambunctious bull can knock it off its track.

You must of missed the point that the original door was being knocked and hit by our fridge opening. That is why we installed the barn door for sliding purposes.

Not much you can do that wouldn't look like an afterthought....

No, I didn’t miss that point. Though if the issue is the fridge door hitting the pantry door, I don’t know how a barn door would be any less likely to be hit than any other door.

It’s a pantry, isn’t it? Not a door that needs to be open all the time. Did you think of using bifolds? Saloon-type swinging doors? A single swinging door? (We had one of those at our last home between the kitchen and our formal dining room. Everybody loved that door.)

Or pocket doors. Do you have room for a pocket door or two?

Our swinging dining room door looked like this. It swung in both directions. Very cool.

Thank you everyone!!!!:) I have some ideas

I sure will :)

Perhaps you could use this style pivot door - if you install it to open inward it would be easy enough to have knobs on both inside and out.

https://www.wayfair.com/home-improvement/pdp/renin-manufactured-wood-and-glass-pivot-door-fthq1048.html

Or this bifold, opening to the right.

https://www.wayfair.com/LTL-Home-Products--Pantry-Glass-BiFold-Door-8746-L6477-K~LTLD1018.html?refid=GX433533963513-LTLD1018&device=c&ptid=902709800371&network=g&targetid=pla-902709800371&channel=GooglePLA&ireid=43872621&fdid=1817&PiID%5B%5D=16255487&gclid=CjwKCAjw3MSHBhB3EiwAxcaEu3AtvilGHW-OzlNFS6TLSpV2DL_EL8mqyFzzzuUYH2mLPkMb-THLUhoCVbwQAvD_BwE

Good luck!

We used angled nylon brushings mounted on the framing for our barn garage doors. They close up the gap to keep critters & drafts out -- not sure if this will work stylistically in an interior setting, but you can get them in 90degree angle holder in a variety of brush widths, and paint the metal to match your trim.

https://jacorinc.com/shop/products/brush-seals/medium-duty-brush/90-degree-holder/

Would make more sense to mount the door inside the pantry. That is, if the wall is straight and doesn't just out like it does on the kitchen side.

Or replace with a simple wall mount sliding door. Inside the pantry. Like this:

Or buy a counter depth refrigerator & rehang the swing door. I would replace a door knob with a recessed pull and use magnetic catches. If you rehang the swing door, then you won't have to replace that morticed for hinges jamb on the left.

Pocket door or bi-fold that is attached on the right side.

The track needs to be closer to the wall. Can’t quite see it on my phone but if you have a board up there with the track mounted to it, see if you can get a thinner one or remove it all together. With or without that board, replace those spacer dowels with thinner spacers (Lowe’s hardware isle - paint them black). Get the door so it is as tight as possible to the door jamb without rubbing.

Y’all have been great! We figured it out LOL. I will post pictures soon! 😉

@stax I know the builder was idiotic lol

Following to see what you decided to do. Can't wait to see the final results!

Turned out awesome ! No more gap! We added a trim board to the end of the door, filled the joint and painted it! You can’t even tell!🤓

You da man! Good job!

Looks great!. I know many on here hate barn doors. I removed an ugly bifold door and moved the door back to inside our office with a barn door. I love it, it is open with the door behind our credenza most of the time, but when one of us wants privacy, it looks great from inside the office and outside at our entry when closed taking up little space.

Thank you!! Yes I have noticed a lot of people don’t like the barn door as well. Lol. I love it. I agree looks nice shut or open :)

Terrific resolution -- looks great!

FWIW, I think barn doors are great problem solvers for many situations. If people would start calling them sliders instead of barn doors I don't think posters would get as much negativity when mentioning them -- "barn door" conjures a certain image; however, there are all sorts of styles of barn doors (ahem...sliders) from down-on-the farm to sleek, ultra-contemporary.

You are exactly right!!! just don’t call it a barn door lol!

Amazing solution and it look great.

Intrigued by the gap fix. It looks good. I have newly built and installed screened barn doors for the newly built screened in breeze way. I didn’t realize that the gap would allow insects to enter until installation. Your solution was to add trim to your door…is the trim attached to form an L shape- like a side vertical wall to the end of the door?