This style of door is attractive and imparts a country feel to the surroundings reminiscent of farms and ranches.
Tongue and groove for barn doors.
The tongue and groove shiplap is the base of our door so we trimmed each of those planks to 7 tall.
Step 1 building the face frame for barn door.
10 pieces of tongue and groove pine 8 ft tall or however tall you want it it comes in 6 ft 8 ft and 12 ft at home depot.
We also had to alter one of ours vertically to get it to our desired width of four feet.
Here is what we used to make our barn door.
Lay the shiplap planks flat attach them together with the tongue grooves.
I also like this board because it has a beadboard like pattern on one side.
Unfinished knotty pine tongue and groove barn wood board 15 pack.
The back layer of wood is rough sawn white pine that s 3 4 thick that i had the lumber yard turn into tongue and groove.
After cutting the tongue and groove shiplap pieces to the length that you want your door in my case 86 inches take 6 of the 7 pieces and working one piece at a time insert the tongue part into the grooves.
Be sure all pieces are in place.
With the right bracing a door made from tongue and groove wood is solid and will hold up over the years.
We used this one which i was estatic to find because it was about 5 per board.
For rustic applications recreation rooms barns shops or even boutiques build a tongue and groove door by bracing it diagonally.
Pacific entries 1 in.
Another option would be ship lap style joints that would also provide the same benefit for shrinking.