Custom Barn Doors
Barn Door Popular Decor Styles
Barn doors are a popular request in Colorado. Perhaps it’s the wild west factor, or the farmhouse trend in home decor. Even Colorado’s Mountain Modern style homes feature barn doors.
Traditional Barn Door Styles
A traditional barn door tends to have cross beams in a single diagonal line, two beams in opposing diagonal directions, or an 'x' pattern. More complex traditional barn doors may be constructed in a herringbone or chevron pattern.
Modern Barn Door Styles
What makes a barn door modern? Given our custom barn doors are all made on order, they are all technically 'modern' if categorizing modernity by date of manufacture. What makes a barn door a modern style tends to be the material, layout, or hardware. Modern hardware has a less rustic feel and might be chrome instead of an iron/matte black color. Modern barn door layouts might kick the traditional cross beam pattern in favor of an asymmetric or geometric pattern.
Alternative Barn Door Styles
Using a horizontal wood pattern may be seen as modern, or it could have a midcentury modern vibe. Midcentury Modern style is characterized by simple lines and connection to nature, which makes a midcentury style barn door a natural fit.
Measuring and Planning for Barn Doors
Barn doors are a stylish and practical alternative to a hinged door or pocket door. If you’re considering getting barn doors made for your space, it’s important to consider the space required for the door, the door hardware, and the clearance needed to fully cover the opening as well as the room for the door to slide and provide access to the opening. When measuring an opening for custom barn doors, it's first helpful to know the style and design of the barn doors you'll be hanging. If you want two barn doors to slide and meet in the center, versus having overlapping barn doors will determine the type of barn door hardware you need. If you have a doorway that is 30 inches wide and 68 inches tall, you may want to order a custom barn door that is wider and higher to be sure the opening is fully covered. Having a larger barn door can also have a more stylish appearance as a statement piece. However, you also need to ensure that you're leaving enough space above the opening to run the top track and wheels that help the barn door slide.
Barn Door Hardware
Typical barn door hardware has a top rail, wheels to slide the barn door along the top track, and a bottom track to guide the door as it slides.
For an opening that has two barn doors coming to the center to cover it, you'll want a track long enough to hang two doors and one bottom track. Here are examples of affordable barn door hardware for this setup from Amazon, the top track and bottom track are ordered separately. If you want two barn doors to slide in front and behind one another, you need a bypass track.