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Do you love old doors on track hardware? Could you full frontal smooch them?!!

Welcome to an epic world of Barn Door Track Hardware.

Do you want to know how to create your own funky door track hardware!?

 A DIY DOOR HARDWARE TUTORIAL IS ABOUT TO HIT YOUR WORLD.

Why put doors on tracks?

Because a door on track hardware is as sexy as it gets.

 ALMOST as sexy as chocolate.  Almost.

Want to create your own DIY DOOR TRACK HARDWARE?!

 I can show you how.

~ Cheap cheap cheap ~

Kinda.

HERE IS THE PLAN OF WHAT YOU NEED TO DO :

 Sneak in new{old} doors into your home.

One by one.

The Grand Scheme :

Change every door in the house when your husband/roomie/partner/dog/cat isn’t looking.

Ohh, hells ya.

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Like this : Mission accomplished #1

Need some inspiration??!!

Have you checked out doors on track hardware on Pinterest ?

Uhhhm. Orgasmic.

You only need about a week day on pinterest to truly see the magnificence of barn doors on track hardware. Any door on any track hardware ACTUALLY.  It is enough to make a grown ass adult lose their mind.  

DOOR PORN ENVY

Here are a few pix of doors on track hardware in pinterest.  Your welcome.  I’ve saved you some time.  I hope you have a few extra minutes to brush your hair today.  My hair looks like a birds nest, but hey… my pinterest door track board is smokin’ hawt.  That’s right.  I have my imaginary world priorities in order.

 WARNING WARNING WARNING.

Get a life alert.

Or at least get a hair brush ready.  You will have time to brush your hair in three days.

  You’ll be fine.

STARE AT DOOR TRACK, JUMP IN TUB

WHO CAN RESIST THAT?! 

Last year, when we were building our treehouse, I started to collect old doors :

At the time, my intention was to find some reclaimed doors for the treehouse.

Well. Well. Well.

Nuff said.

Have you seen how many stunning doors are out there are in salvage yards, garage sales, repurpose shops, AND your neighbours garage ?!

They aren’t just on barns, people.  They are everywhere !!

*I’m freaking out with excitement, just writing those words.*

Did you know that some crazy folks people just shove them aside and ignore them??!!

Uhhhmmmm. Duh.  They are stupid.  Just sayin’.

*hot tip* : check your neighbours garage

Go steal one from neighbours garage when they aren’t looking.  The dust on it will be free/no charge.

 Creating a DIY DOOR TRACK ….

has one rule.

K.I.S.S.

Keep It Simple, Stupid.

Why did I decide to create a simple door track ? Made of simple, rustic materials? Quite simply….

The price of buying door track hardware is about a million-trillion-gazillion-bizmillion dollars.  Or something like that.  It is freakin’ expensive.  I double dare you to google it.

 E.X.P.E.N.S.I.V.E.

Do you want to know how to make the door tracks?

I can SORT OF tell you.

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This is how the story goes.

I like doors to tell a story.

Like…. if the walls could talk…..but they are doors.

P.S. If my walls could talk, I would be in big shit.

DOORS ARE LIKE ART. Wall art. Wall Jewellery.

A door: It has a 100 years of character in it.  GORGEOUSNESS.  It can be seen every single day.  No one can eat it.  No one can take it away.  It is too damn heavy.  Money well spent.

Sliding doors are great on a pantry to hide all your stuff food :

This pantry has a wine cooler in it. OMG. Bliss.

DIY DOOR TRACK HARDWARE

SUPPLIES :

1.  Two 3 inch wooden wheels.

2.  Flat bar :

Width  = 1/8 inch thick x 1 3/4 inches wide.

Length = Double the width of your door and add a few inches for safe measure.  You don’t want to cut it so short that your door will fall off the track.  That would just be embarrassing.  I totally did that.  We are not going to talk about it.

3.  Nuts/bolts to attach flat bar to the wall.  I put in a ton of photos for you to stare at so you know exactly what they look like.  If you want EXACT numbers, you better come over to my house.  Be forewarned : You can expect popcorn for dinner.

The flat bar is one inch out from the wall :

4.  Two flat bar hanger brackets to hold the door on the wheel/track.  Each bracket is 12 inches long and has an offset bend at the wheel.  Just look at the photos.  This tutorial is  like an Ikea instruction manual.  Have you noticed that Ikea gives assembly directions with pictures only?!! I LOVE THAT.

Note :

Ikea = Swedish for divorce.

5.  Extra flat rod to create a door stop.  This prevents your door from flying off your track. Been there.  Done that.  Got the poster.  It was an ugly poster.

6.  An old door.  Preferably a sexy one.  Think door porn.  You will be fine.

7.  Lightly sand the door in places to clean it up a bit.  Varathane it for extra sexiness.  The varathane draws out the colours and puts a nice clean finish on the door.  I used a matte finish varathane.  { The choices are endless though }  Be careful to ask and make sure that the varathane is not going to yellow. It can happen and when it does….Grrrh….

 *temper tantrum ensues*

It’s all in the DETAILS

Here are some measurements from Barn Door Hardware to help you out.  The Barn Door Hardware website is full of all kinds of great door hardware too :

Fussy. Fussy. Ok. Deets are Done.

If you can’t wield a power tool and there is no Handy Andy … I have one friend.  That’s right. ONE.  Shut up.  Dan Duquette at Duke Iron is a welder and a magician with a torch.     He works with local Amish to create the wooden wheels.  How freaking cool is that?!!  Horse and buggy and all.

He can build this for you and you can just order it from him.  Your very own Handy Andy!!   You can find him here : DUKE IRON.  The Duke is also a cool dude because he just shaved his head with Michael.  You can read more about that here : Dear Cancer, I HATE you and I THANK you.

There. My work is done.  I’m off to steal find another door.  If only I can find them with less dust on them.

May the force be with you.