Trade your ordinary interior door for a farm chic sliding barn door with these easy steps.
Replace garage door with barn doors.
These are large doors that appear to have handles that would allow you to swing them open to allow entry rather than opening in an overhead fashion like most modern garage doors.
You can also choose to buy a barn door hardware kit from major hardware stores.
Those who are comfortable with using carpentry tools will be right at home with building a barn door.
Garage doors that look like barn doors perhaps you have been driving by homes in your neighborhood and have noticed the interesting phenomenon of garage doors that look like barn doors.
Rolls up and down on tracks sliding.
Barn style garage doors as shown here slide open to the side requiring a wider garage wall to.
Switching from sliding doors to an overhead door is going to pose a massive challenge to do correctly.
Use a template to mark the holes for your door hardware then drill the holes making sure to hold the drill perpendicular to the floor.
This in itself is reason enough to spend the generally few dollars up front to use a sectional steel overhead door.
You ll need a set of sliding door hardware as well as a door that s large enough to cover your opening.
The most common option would be to take on the task of building a barn door for your garage.