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DIY Modern Sliding Barn Door

 December 4, 2015     Sarah Lemp    2 Comments   This post contains affiliate links

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DIY sliding barn door for a small closet! This is the cheapest and easiest way to create a barn style door!

This little closet and I have been through a lot together. We have lived in our home for almost 10 years now. Since moving in, we have upgraded to a King size bed and traded closets several times. My husband first started off with the smaller closet. Then, in an act of true love, I traded with him so he could have the larger of the two.

My first attempt at organizing my small closet can be found here: organizing the world’s smallest closet.
At that point, I added some better shelving inside, took off the bi-fold doors and converted them to more of a French door style complete with mirrors and push lights. Fancy, right?

DIY sliding barn door for a small closet! This is the cheapest and easiest way to create a barn style door!


 

Because of the small size of our room and the small size of the master bathroom, we removed the door to the bathroom almost immediately after moving in. There was hardly room to squeeze around it. It has worked fine, but I’ve always thought it would be nice to have a more compact option.

The idea I had in my head was to come up with a sliding barn door style closet door that could also slide down in front of the bathroom = dual purpose. I wanted to spend as little as possible and I wanted a BIG mirror.

After spending countless hours (or minutes) searching Pinterest, I found 3 general options for barn doors.

  1. The expensive option that involved fancy barn door style hardware that creates a smooth, flawless sliding door.
  2. The slightly less expensive version that involves cutting metal or wood or rigging up some kind of makeshift system out of pulleys from a garage door opener or a clothing line.
  3. The third option and most industrial of the 3, involved:
    1. One metal pipe
    2. Two elbows
    3. Four eye hooks
    4. Four small casters.

 

DIY sliding barn door for a small closet! This is the cheapest and easiest way to create a barn style door!

The mirror was the most expensive part, but we found this one at a pretty good price from the Home Depot at around $50. The cost for the hardware was less than $20. I used my existing bi-fold doors and bracketed them together. The mirror created extra stability.

The only thing I will say about this system is that it is not super smooth and it is slightly noisy. My plan is to grease up the bar a bit to see if it slides better… I’ll keep you posted! All in all, it was cheap, it looks good, and it works!

DIY sliding barn door for a small closet! This is the cheapest and easiest way to create a barn style door! DIY sliding barn door for a small closet! This is the cheapest and easiest way to create a barn style door! DIY sliding barn door for a small closet! This is the cheapest and easiest way to create a barn style door! DIY sliding barn door for a small closet! This is the cheapest and easiest way to create a barn style door!

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About Sarah Lemp

Sarah is a second generation homeschooling mom. She lives in Metro Detroit with her husband Jay, 5 kids and dog, Edison. They love staying active as a family and going on trips in their renovated RV's. Sarah loves to sing, make pretty things and eat pizza.

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  1. Dawn

    September 5, 2016 at 9:39 pm

    Just came across this so you may have fixed the slight noise, but if not a good fix I find for such things, you can buy a block of beeswax at Hobby Lobby for about $5.00 (or less if you grab their 40% off coupon online) and rub that around the rod and cut a small chunk off to rub in the rings.

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    • Sarah Lemp

      September 7, 2016 at 4:31 pm

      Thanks, Dawn! That is a great tip! I must admit, I have yet to get around to fixing my issue haha but now I may try this :)

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