How To Build A Sliding Door For A Bar Countertop

Next put a row of squares on each door with a row of long thin rectangles repeating the pattern once again so you can glue top to bottom panels on the doors.

How to build a sliding door for a bar countertop.

With an old door and some pallet wood this bar came to life rather quickly. Attach the plywood sheet to the back of the door. Complete course by course instructions are included. Hgtv remodeling expert laurie march shows how she built a sliding barn door to add privacy between a master bedroom and bathroom.

Includes free building plans tips on selecting wood how to build and hang a sliding barn door yourself. Measure the area of the countertop and cut an unfinished slab door to fit. A sliding top is also one of the innovative featured of the verve kitchen by minimal usa. Ours was 4 x 2 1.

Today i have a beginners guide to building a barn door with free plans and a video tutorial. With a gentle push the user can slide away the countertop to reveal the cooktop and sink. This compact outdoor bar 48 in. The sample shown uses chalkboard paint in the center so they can write messages.

Wide x 24 in. Apply wood glue on all top surfaces of the pieces of both your inner and outer frames. This was a buffet portion of our countertop that we do not use for cooking. Measure from the floor to the top of the door casing then cut the boards inch shorter on a miter saw.

The concrete was precut and sized to fit. Dean peacock wanted to top off his diy bar with something tougher than wood. Gang the boards side by side place the blocks along the outside edges and use long bar clamps to cinch them together. The simple addition of a mounted bottle opener helped this to look like a beverage bar.

The hardest part of this diy may be choosing a paint color. Stare at your ugly beige laminate and decide what to do. High was made from a kit. If that s got you ready to go out and build your own check out our guide to diy bar building.

But those options are expensive and pro installed and dean likes to do everything himself. Deep x 38 in. Flip the door so that the newly attached plywood side faces down. Building a barn door is not hard if you have some basic woodworking skills and good directions.

Square up the assembly with longer strapping at the top and bottom edges. For instance you can have canvas stretchers with mitered corners put together to make equal squares and rectangles attach as raised boards to the doors. Measure twice cut once. Place the plywood on top of the frame apply wood glue and secure it with screws once it s aligned.

Because the door was going to be used in an area where moisture might be an issue she used a high gloss paint to. Then he came across these italian granite slabs at a tile store.