I had pinterest envy for a sliding barn door. I pretty much drooled over them. When we first began making plans, the upstairs bathroom was low on the priority list. However, in the spirit of demolition we suddenly decided to rip out the whole upstairs powder room - toilet, sink, the door and the whole kit and caboodle. The old door swung into the bathroom requiring and individual to squeeze between the door frame and the sink just to get around it. We knew we were going to put a sliding track door in eventually. That eventually was almost 4 months after we ripped out the old door.
The journey began when I went shopping for a door. This was not so easy. I went to at least 5 flea markets and scoured craigslist for weeks. The problem was not style it was size. With a sliding door it needs to be wider and taller than the opening. So I was on the hunt for a extra wide, extra tall door with vintage charm. After a few weeks of hunting we finally found and purchased a just right old door from the ReSource Store, one of my favorite re-sale shops that no longer exists (due to blasted eminent domain. They were having a liquidation sale so we bought 3 old doors. The others we will use for future projects.
Then to install the trim around the door frame. This gives the door the finished look.
I then caulked and painted the frame job.
The next step was preparing the door. Because the door was extra wide and extra tall it had to be cut down just a bit. We took the door to a friend place who had all the woodworking tools a man could want. David was thrilled! He cut the door down and used a rotating tool to fill the handle holes.
Once the plug was finished and the ends chopped off we were ready to head home and install the track system.
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