A sliding bathroom barn door can be distinctly different from your run of the mill door with hinges.
Bathroom barn door privacy.
Hgtv remodeling expert laurie march shows how she built a sliding barn door to add privacy between a master bedroom and bathroom.
Closing off a room from prying eyes and giving you an extra barrier between you and the rest of the world or just the people in your home.
The lock mounts to a door jamb to keep out prying eyes and keep barn doors shut.
To further give one another level of comfort we added our privacy lock which keeps parties on both sides of the bathroom barn door from having an unpleasant surprise.
By painting a barn door you basically give it a new identity.
One can be sitting in the bathroom doing business with other people active and working just on the other side of the door with no concern about privacy.
For double barn doors a sliding barn door latch isn t too difficult to find or install.
The doors simply slide together and can be locked together.
To save money she used plumbing pipe instead of standard barn door hardware and she saved time by having some of her lumber cut at the hardware store.
We recently did a few updates to our master bedroom decor.
Barn doors are super trendy but often one of the places that people want to use them is on a bathroom.
Barn doors aren t only.
Adding privacy with barn doors.
When we designed and built our home we didn t add a door to our master bathroom.
Barn door and bathroom are diametrically opposed design wise.
In other words a painted barn door is still a barn doors at its core but with a customized look which helps better blend in with the rest of the bathroom s or bedroom s decor and atmosphere.
Not because we wanted it to be open but because i didn t want a door to swing into our room.
We actually have a barn door between our master bedroom and bathroom and get a ton of questions about it so i thought that it would be fun to weigh in on what we think.
But their purpose is the same.
Purchase a door that s as tall as the opening height or opening plus trim and 2 inches wider than the door frame to cover the entire opening.
Consider the type of barn door.
Instead of fastening the barn door rail to drywall first screw a ledger board to the wall studs for a sturdier mounting surface that allows the hanging door to clear the door frame.
Barn doors work great in barns with farm animals that don t care about bathroom privacy and maybe for pantries in kitchens for people looking to update to the latest trend.
Because the door was going to be used in an area where moisture might be an issue she used a high gloss paint to.
Sliding barn door bathroom privacy is still a hot topic.
There s one thing that has been missing.