Since we had two doors to build we cut each piece of plywood to 31 3 16.
How to build 4 x 8 barn door with plywood.
You want to cover the trim entirely when the barn door is closed.
I found this one on amazon and it is heavy duty.
Hang the sliding barn door hardware.
This both looks better and provides more of a sound barrier between rooms.
Add 1 inch to your door to cover the opening.
Since this will increase the overall thickness of the door so i thought i would use 1 2 plywood for the main door panel instead of 3 4.
Therefore our total width of the doors was 62 3 8.
Cut a sheet of 3 4 plywood to the size of your door opening plus the trim.
How to build a sliding barn door cut plywood to the size of the door frame.
Just make sure that you have sufficient amount of 4 by 4s that you would be able to hang this hardware on otherwise the door will bring the whole hardware to the ground because it ends up to be like 50lbs.
We purchased the plywood for the back of the doors from home depot and had them cut the plywood for us.