barn style sliding interior doors

masraum · 11-03-2013, 11:55 AM

Anyone got or install one of these things. They seem to get used a bunch of the shows on H&G when they renovate a home whether for a door or to black out windows in a media room or to cover a TV or built in shelves. We've got a tiny master bath with a door that is really inconvenient and takes up space in the bath room. I'd love to put in a pocket door, but tearing out part of the wall is a lot of work when we probably won't be in the house that long. The missus is wanting to do a makeover on the bathroom before we sell and changing out the door should make the room seem bigger. It looks like you can get reasonably inexpensive hardware online. What I'm wondering about is how are they for privacy? Would you be able to peek around them? How do you think it would work as a bathroom door. I'm not sure that I'm a huge fan of the look in this case, but the practicality would be great.

look 171 · 11-03-2013, 01:30 PM

Get a door that's slightly over size to deal with privacy issue. a couple of INches will do. Issue is the ability to lock it when in use. I have had a bunch of request for it in the past few years, but once I mention about the ability to keep the lock then the design goes into another direction. Pocket is the way to go. There are some high end hardware I use for this kind of install. When the times comes, I will get you the name. Swiss made, good stuff.

masraum · 11-03-2013, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by look 171

Get a door that's slightly over size to deal with privacy issue. a couple of INches will do. Issue is the ability to lock it when in use. I have had a bunch of request for it in the past few years, but once I mention about the ability to keep the lock then the design goes into another direction. Pocket is the way to go. There are some high end hardware I use for this kind of install. When the times comes, I will get you the name. Swiss made, good stuff.

Thanks, I love pocket and wish I had gone that way years ago when we first moved in, but now we are planning/hoping to only be in the house another 6 months or so. I have seen some locks for sliding doors. Not the most elegant, but that's OK. I think the big deal is that they would require a bottom channel as well as the top so the door couldn't just be swung open. It seems like it would be a much bigger deal to go pocket than we would want to deal with on something that would be short term. We may just end up sticking with what we have if there isn't a decent cost effective solution.

Stonestreet · 11-03-2013, 05:02 PM

A pocket door would be more work than you probably want. There are plenty of solutions to the privacy issue of a barn door, depending on what you have to work with. A channel in the bottom of the door with a guide pin an inch or so back from the wall opening at the open position will keep it from being pulled away from the wall, and then a latch similar to an eye and hook but with less play will keep it from being pulled open. The only downside to a barn door at a powder room or bathroom is the sound/smell factor.

look 171 · 11-03-2013, 05:29 PM

Nooooooo. Not an eye hook. Utilitarian but ugly and cheap.

look 171 · 11-03-2013, 05:30 PM

Steve, how about a pair of small doors? Its not bulky like a single door

MBAtarga · 11-03-2013, 05:38 PM

If you have one local, Tractor Supply carries the assorted hardware for that barn style rolling door.

masraum · 11-03-2013, 07:14 PM

This looks like a reasonably attractive lock for this sort of door.

stomachmonkey · 11-03-2013, 07:20 PM

If it's a master bath how often will anyone other than the occupying couple use it?

Is a lock really a necessity?

FWIW my master bath has double doors, no lock, never gave it a second thought.

look 171 · 11-03-2013, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by masraum

This looks like a reasonably attractive lock for this sort of door.

then why not just a simple slide bolt and a hole in the door?