Materials for building a tongue and groove barn door here is what we used to make our barn door.
Diy tongue and groove barn door.
This door above is made from 1 8 tongue and groove pine boards.
Secure the 1 1 4 brad nails into the back of the main frame by either face nailing them or going through the tongue.
If you face nail be sure to fill in any brad holes with wood filler.
We cut each 8 wide piece to our desired length 84 and then ran the end pieces through the table saw to remove the exposed tongue and the groove slots on each side of the door.
Build an rustic door with tongue and groove wood.
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.
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.
The center is the only spot that has glue all the way thru touching both sides of groove and tongue.
And yes you could build this door from straight boards without the tongue and groove as well.
Our door opening is 4 wide so we built ours to be 4 wide and 7 tall.
This style of door is attractive and imparts a country feel to the surroundings reminiscent of farms and ranches.
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.
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.
Diy barn doors step 1 selecting the material.
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.
For rustic applications recreation rooms barns shops or even boutiques build a tongue and groove door by bracing it diagonally.
Drill 3 8 hole thru the groove and tongue and glue in a 3 8 dowel or pin.
How to build a sliding barn door.
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.
The tongue and groove shiplap is the base of our door so we trimmed each of those planks to 7 tall.