My Beautiful New Closet Door
I’ve been wanting to show this one off for a while, but my hard drive crashed and took all of my files with it so its taken me a couple weeks to get a new hard drive installed and all my files backed up. But with that all behind me I can finally show off my latest project that I completed.
This is our hall closet and it used to have a terribly ugly closet door. I had always wanted to put something else in there, but never knew what. Then I got an idea to do a hanging style barn door and thus this project came to be.
I wanted to use reclaimed wood as I wanted an older look to it. All of the wood was from old fences and I got it for free from a fencing company that was just throwing it way.
My dad was down for a visit so he helped me build the door. I am also very lucky and have a neighbor that has all the woodworking tools that I don’t have. Here I am planing the boards.
Here are all the pieces of the frame, railing and hangers being painted. I was going to buy the hardware to hang the door, but then I looked at the prices.
The prices for a door like this run around $1000 and up. The price just for the hangers start at $300 and up. So I built my own.
So all in total the door cost be about $50 but a lot of time cleaning up the old wood boards. But it came out beyond awesome and I love looking at it every time I walk down the hallway.
So there is my new door. I’m very proud to show it off and very happy with how it came out.
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