Closing the Barn Doors

One of our priorities was finishing and installing the barn doors so they would be out of the way when we put the finish on the floor.

When we built the doors, we intended to panel both sides and install the "X" crosspieces to give them the barn door look on both sides. But after we finished the first side and realized how heavy they were, we decided that adding more wood was a bad idea.

Gerald had the idea of making a collage out of old burlap sacks. So once we got the doors laid out on the floor, I dry fit the sacks while Gerald installed a track along the bottom.

That done, we glued the burlap sacks down using spray adhesive, and attached a wood border.

Then J.C. helped raise the doors...

and attach the hardware.

Here's how it looked from our "stealth" guest room, with one door closed.