Interior Bedroom Door

Any thoughts on a modern and inexpensive bedroom door. We would love a sliding glass barn door but that seems extremely expensive. (one quote from NY Lofts was for $5000). Any ideas?

Thanks very much. I'm actually not the most handy person on the planet and so I was hoping you could give me some more details. Exactly which track are you using and how would I get a piece of glass to fit on to the tracks? Please forgive me if these are obvious questions but as I said I'm new to the whole DIY thing.

Thanks

I've also seen the tracks at Lowes or you can google barn door hardware and find it. You'll need to have your panel material fabricated to accomodate the hardware you choose, but most just have a channel that the panel would slot into on the top and bottom.

Find the hardware you want first and then take the specs for it to a glass supplier. If you explain what you want to do they can figure out the rest.

Half the battle with anything DIY is sourcing materials and fabricators. The phone book is your best friend.

what's the best way to make sure the door sealed properly? i'm thinking about doing this for a bathroom and i want to make sure that when it closed, it provided enough privacy.

atibbs -

Do you have plan drawings for the sliding door that you are building, that you don't mind sharing? I can picture how the door mounts to the sliding hardware, but how is it mounting to the interior studs/walls? Are you making it a pocket door, or sliding along the wall?

Is there a track along the bottom or just the top? If just the top are there any issues with the door swinging out and back?

My husband and I are also looking to put in sliding doors - a combination of metal and glass - for all of our rooms.

We found some great hardware at www.megla.com (click on products, then scroll down to sliding door systems).

Unfortunately, they are a German company and only sell in the US through a company called CHMI www.chmi.com/architectural/index.htm . CHMI will only sell to contractors and glass distributors. Since they wouldn't talk to me, I don't have any idea how much the systems cost.

Once we figured out the hardware, we were going to try to design the doors ourselves with the metal panel products we found at our local metal supply place, then go to a metal fabricator to do the building.

Did anyone have any luck finding the flat track hardware? We're working on a sliding barn door and want to use the flat track style.

Thanks,

Tammi

http://livemodern.com/forums/dwell/materialsmethods/392013888986

i put this in the other forum, and ran across this topic. thought it might help someone or give them some ideas. not as fancy as glass or polycarbonate though.

from my searching, sliding hardware is hard to find inexpensively.

Orangezero...what was the total cost of the hardware...if you don't mind me asking.
I've received a quote through Crown Industrial and I'd like to find a cheaper alternative.
I like the set up and I have access to any woodworking tools/machines I need...and I'm DIY friendly.
What you have looks like what I had quoted from Crown. Very nice.

i think it was something like this:

birch plywood ~$60
track ~$20
two hangers ~23
hardware to attach to concrete ~$8

think that was it, other than some poly to coat the door.

i will say, the track was $30 at another place i went in town, and the two hangers were anywhere from 23 to over 40. then you can buy other stuff, like sliding rails along the bottom and such, i haven't done any of that yet. I also haven't bought any door handle hardware, someone at an antique shop recommended some pulls that they used to use for windows, cause they were less expensive but still looked nice. need to route those in sometime.

hope that helps, let me know if you need anything else. i will say, home depot and lowes didn't really have anythign nearly this sturdy.. menards is where i got it. or if you're in a farm area, go to a farm supply place. or people that make metal sheds and garages.

I was in IKEA today and noticed that the PAX STORDAL storage cabinet has massive glass and aluminum doors on a barn track for about $300-$400 depending on size. perhaps you could modify these for use as a bedroom door?

-steve

Where in the world are you? I have not been able to find this hardware for a single door for less than $200. Just tried Menards on line, but no search result. I'm in CA so there are no stores out here.

Anyone else know where to get this hardware at orangezero's prices? Stanley stuff is too lightweight and no flat mount, barndoorhardware is almost $300...I need to do two closet doors and a double garage door, but not at those prices.

HELP !!!

You might try Johnson Hardware. I have used them for a sliding door that I built. They have a wall mount track available.
-Steve
http://www.johnsonhardware.com/2610f.htm

I actually used modernus.com (www.modernus.com) and I am really happy. They are a factory direct shop that sells high end Italian doors at factory direct prices. The same door that you probably got quoted for $5000 is probably less than 1/2 with them. I explored the IKEA solution and found their product too limiting for me (it comes only in set sizes), so I had to return it.

Try modernus.com. Really a great resource. It worked for me.

Thanks

I liked the doors I bought from modernus.com (http://www.modernus.com). They are the same high end doors, but because of their factory direct prices, they are really priced right. I bought 8 of them.