One of the first projects we're tackling in the house is adding a door to the guest bedroom closet. It's one of the biggest closets in the house and typically jammed full of stuff. Great for us, but not so nice for any overnight guests.
Fast forward a week or so after move-in, and the closet looks like this.
Fast forward a week or so after move-in, and the closet looks like this.
When we bought the house, the room was painted bright yellow. First step was to paint everything a fresh white (Kelly Moore Swiss Coffee) before we moved in.
There is not enough room for a traditional door, but we didn't want to an accordion style door since it seems too flimsy. In the end we decided on a sliding barn door like this:
J built the door using a bead board panel and simple 2x4s. He did this while I was at the grocery store (so no pictures), but it was a fairly quick and inexpensive project (maybe $50 all in). The key was the bead board panel (about $40 at Home Depot) since that simplified the whole door-building part of the project and made the door significantly lighter than if we built the whole thing from 2x4s.
J had the panel cut to fit our closet door at Home Depot, then cut the 2x4s into the 5 trim pieces needed at home (3 horizontals and 2 diagonals). Next, he put it all together using nails and wood-glue. Any gaps were filled with wood-filler, although we like the rustic look so nothing looks too perfect.
We looked into buying sliding barn door hardware -- there are some gorgeous options out there, but they seemed crazy expensive (from $150 to $900!). In the end, we used the helpful tutorial at A Little Bite of Everything to make our own. There are a lot of tutorials out there, but this one was easy to follow and had the look we wanted.
To tie in with the other colors in the room already, we decide to paint the door a rich blue-grey similar to this Glidden Blue-Grey Slate. The room doesn't get a lot of direct light, so it adds some nice depth without appearing too dark.
We love how the blue picks up some of the grey tones in the rustic wood door
The barn door slides behind the main door to the room, so we put a stopper on the floor to keep them from bumping into each other when both are open. We also put rubber bumpers along the baseboard so the barn door doesn't scrape the wood when in use.
The finished product! The door hardware was also from Home Depot, a simple Everbilt Black Heavy Duty Gate Pull for $10.
All in, the door landed us around $125 including wood ($50), paint ($25) and hardware ($50). We're pretty happy!
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