Exterior Barn Door - Where to source one?
Amanda W
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Comments (5)The front door is just ugly aside from not being very weather tight. During the winter it leaks a lot of cold air from all sides of it. It's a solid core door, that has been dinged up through the years, no window either. We want something which will let in light to the hallway. Plus, the existing screen door, is a cheap one with fake stained "glass" in it and is falling apart. We recently painted it which improved it's appearance dramatically but doesn't take care of the problems it has. Plus it does nothing for the overall appearance of the home. We've been able to stop some of the air leakage with weather stripping, but because of the way the lock is installed it tends to jamb and not close properly if we use enough to really make it as leakproof as it needs to be. Thanks for the links for the French door tho. I do agree with you on the point of it going to look like a front door in the living room if I use something else - which has been part of my problem all along and why we haven't yet jumped into replacing this one. I want to make sure I pick the absolute right door here or it's going to really look terrible!...See MoreCan you turn a french door into a barn door?
Comments (6)The door slab can be used for the barn door, but you'll want to remove the hinges and patch/paint them. The knobs could be left on, but realize that they'll prevent the doors from opening the full width of the opening (may not matter to you). And you'll have the latch mechanism that will be extraneous. Here's a photo of a barn door setup we used between a bedroom and bath. We still had normal molding (casing and baseboard), so that wouldn't need to be removed. Your doors will just cover the opening (like they do now) without any overlap. Also, the door jamb will have mortises to full in (where hinges were), an extra piece of wood in the center of the door jamb (don't know the name) that doesn't exist for wall openings without doors. Those could be removed. As long as the above don't bother you, it can certainly be done....See MoreCrash course on doors? Pocket Doors, sliding barn door and swing doors
Comments (36)"I went to work in an office that had a pocket door that never worked right because someone had driven nails into it at some point and it was never the same after" (palimpsest) Yes. This happened to us when DH nailed the baseboard on the wall between the laundry and kitchen. The door came off track. When we renovate I will replace or remove. However, this was builder grade. On our extension I added three pocket doors. The one I had put in for the powder room is a solid core door, not thinner than most doors, as I wanted as much sound-dampening as possible with such a device. We used Johnson Hardware - not the home depot variety which runs $ 40 or so, but commercial grade. Look at the Johnson site under 1500 Commercial Grade and you will also find non-standard size frames (door max thickness 1 3/4"). Use a good carpenter....See MorePocket Door or Barn Door for laundry room?
Comments (21)If the choices are only pocket door or barn door, then I’d pick a pocket (ha!) door, which I have. However, if you’re open to the idea, double doors, like oaktonmom suggested, is an option worth considering. That’s what I’ll be replacing my laundry room door with, because of the congestion in that area of my house (laundry room door, closet door and garage door all open into a 4’ x 8’ vestibule of sorts). Like your ex, I took the laundry room door of its hinges (I didn’t throw mine away though!) while I was working on reconfiguring the closet that’s catty corner to it because I kept banging stuff against the always-slightly-ajar laundry room damn door (apparently the laundry room is a popular place for cat bathrooms). Plus, the good thing about a traditional swinging door (or two) is that, if storage space really is at a premium, you can hang things on the back of the door, like the ironing board, mops and brooms, clothes rod, wire shelving for cleaning supplies, etc., which you could not do with a barn or pocket door. And here are some clever ideas for those of you whose laundry room pulls double doody as a cat restroom: The Kitty Korner hinge! It turns any door into a cat door!...See Morebarncatz
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