This week's weekend DIY roundup has everything from teeny tiny DIY clay bowls to DIY color blocked barn doors (with gold hardware) and shelves made out of skateboards. So whether you're hoping to tackle a project that is big or small, there is bound to be something on this list that will work for you. Here are 7 DIY projects to try this weekend. 2. DIY Color Blocked Barn Door 3. DIY Nested Clay Bowls 7. DIY Eye Love You Poster Looking for more weekend projects to try? View the previous posts in this series right here.Please enter your Zipcode to find a dealer near you. We love the look of cast glass and thought you might enjoy some of these desktop backgrounds. Gillroy's has been in business since 1945, started by Gilbert Morgan and Roy Trevarrow as a hardware store on Detroit Street (now M.L. King Ave.) in downtown Flint Michigan. We now operate 26 stores, 25 in Michigan and one in Georgia. a one-stop home improvement, building supply, DIY, and hardware supply website with door-step delivery.
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Beyond providing a fresh look for entry ways, they save space because they don't need to open into a room. Barn-style doors hang from an exposed track, rolling along to be pulled open and closed. They can hide views into a kitchen, replace more traditional bedroom and bathroom doors, or be hung as a pair to bring privacy to a living room, dining room or other large area. For those who appreciate a rustic look, the doors are often crafted from real barn wood, and anyone who has one can usually remember where they fell in love with the design. Deb Cerami of Westfield was smitten, appropriately, after having seen one at a Baltimore gastropub whose decor matched its farm-to-table menu. "It was a really cool restaurant, and I remember feeling some inspiration for a kitchen from there," she said. The result of that inspiration is a barn-style pantry door, custom built with remnants of the reclaimed barn wood that was used for the floor and ceiling beams in a recent renovation of her kitchen.
The door is surrounded by a black chalkboard wall. "Behind that beautiful barn door is my shopping list," she says, of the door, which is usually kept in the open position. Cerami said her goal was to harmoniously bring together several ideas in a kitchen that would radiate the wood's warmth. "We wanted rustic farmhouse with an industrial edge." Cerami's is literally a showhouse, an impeccably restored Victorian with an elevator to its third-floor apartment being among the features that made it a pick for the recent Tour of Notable Homes that helps raise funds for the Westfield-based New Jersey Festival Orchestra. But barn-style doors aren't just for expansive homes whose owners have the means to have them custom built and professionally installed. The look has become so popular within the last five years that there are do-it-yourself hardware kits to install the doors. Many have built the door panels themselves, and custom barn-style doors can be ordered through the craft website Etsy.
And the look doesn't have to recall a barnyard. A variety of wooden or wood-framed door styles can be used as long as the selected hardware supports the weight and size. is among websites providing guidance on how to build barn doors. National Hardware, a company that has been making hardware for real barns since 1901, decided it was time to offer more options to the many customers who were using their exterior tracking hangers to install barn doors inside. "We decided to come up with interior tracking hangers that work more with interior decor," said Jonathan Begg, a company spokesman. The brand's rolling door hardware will be available next month in designs that are more streamlined. The company makes systems for pocket doors, folding doors and sliding doors, so it was a natural progression to the interior barn door hardware, which functions similarly, but has its track exposed and installed above the door frame. The company's DIY hardware kits will be available in a contemporary stainless steel and a heavier oil-rubbed bronze.
Each 6-foot track can hold door panels weighing up to 200 pounds. Suggested retail prices are expected to be $149.99 to $169.99 for the oil-rubbed bronze, and $199.99 to $229 for the stainless steel. National Hardware tapped two home-improvement bloggers to install the doors in their homes. , who used the kit to make window covers in her kitchen. She built two narrow panels from recycled barn wood and hung them from the oil-rubbed bronze track. The installation, she writes, gave her a way to bring the look into her home despite the lack of wall space larger doors would need. Doors rolling on the barn-style track obviously need enough wall space to be pushed open on one or both sides. "If your opening is 3 feet, you need 3 feet of wall," Begg explained. The largest door that could be used with the kit would be 37 inches wide, he said, roughly half the length of the track. "Anything larger, we would recommend two kits. We have a connecting adapter that would join the kits together for a bi-parting (two panel) door."