While this may not be an issue for large houses more space starved homes will find it more than a little problematic.
Tiny house closing barn door closet on one side.
In the most common bypass applications two doors run on separate parallel tracks overlapping each other.
My plan is to install one long track so that the doors can both slide to the middle when they need to be open at the same time sort of like your installation if there were 2 openings on either end with solid wall in the middle.
Functionally they are big space savers.
On this kind of door the exterior trim is wide enough that you will still see the frame around the door despite the overlap.
I love your painted door great idea.
If there s no wall space on one side of your door opening or if your opening extends from one wall to the other think closet bypass doors could be the answer.
Barn doors come with both functional and aesthetic benefits.
Last week in my guest room reveal i mentioned the closet doors and how they were one of my biggest diy fails to date.
I m sure you re happy to have planned for barn doors in the new house.
We just did a sliding barn door for our guest bedroom closet and i love the way it looks.
And finally this is a tiny beef but some sliding doors are pretty loud when they open and shut.
Depending on your hardware the sound of the door sliding on the track can resemble rumbling thunder.
Mounting one track in front of another using a bypass bracket allows doors to overlap.
We actually built the hardware ourselves and it was a pain good call on buying it we ll probably buy it if we do more barn door in the house.
We recommend 1 1 2 to 2 of overhang on each side.
I have an interior barn door that is.
See more ideas about barn doors sliding doors home.
How bypass barn doors work.
Thank you so much for all of your tips.
30 opening 34 wide door.
Great if you want to catch your kids sneaking out of the house but otherwise not so much.
The height is a bit trickier based on the casing and header.
Truporte easy clip soft close kit for barn door for door weight 88 132 lbs bdf960 4060 mb the home depot.
It will look fine i have a larger door on a barn track will take a photo from the kitchen and post it for you.
But you did and now we can all benefit from it.
Be remodeling two of our bedrooms in the near future and i was seriously thinking about replacing the outdated shutter closet doors with barn doors.
The traditional swinging door typically needs 9 feet or more of space to function properly.
I have a tiny bedroom with 2 doors toward each end of a 12 wall one to a bathroom and one to a closet.
Why sliding barn doors.