In recent years, both foreign and domestic decorators have been very fond of barn doors when decorating, especially young people. Of course, the most important reason is that it has high appearance and is easy to match. In addition to appearance, how to use and choose barn doors is also a question that many readers are concerned about. Today, let's learn with the editor!
How did the barn door come from?
The barn door, originally a warehouse door for farms in European and American countries, is a sliding door with exposed tracks and simple installation. Later on, it gradually evolved into a type of door for home decoration. Transformed into an external sliding door that combines pulleys and rails. Due to its simple, rough, and delicate texture, it is particularly widely used in Nordic style decoration.
The barn door is different from common sliding doors and sliding doors. Its track is installed on the upper edge of the door frame like a curtain rod, and there is usually no additional track laid on the ground. The main materials of barn doors include logs, solid wood composites, etc. Sometimes, in order to match the overall style, there are also materials such as glass, aluminum alloy+glass, and metal materials. Some designers need to directly attach mirrors to the door panels for design purposes. It can serve as both a door and a dressing mirror, killing two birds with one stone.
With the increasing demand from users, barn doors are also constantly being innovated, such as the practical combination of barn doors and blackboard paint. If you plan to apply blackboard paint at home, but the wall area is too large and affects the lighting. I am afraid that it will be difficult to change the color of the paint later on, and I hesitate. At this point, you can use the barn door+blackboard paint design door. The shapes of barn doors are diverse, but wooden barn doors are still the most commonly used indoors.
Where is the suitable location for installing barn doors?
The barn door can be said to be very versatile, and it can be installed in every kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and wardrobe at home.
Location 1: Cloakroom
Replacing an ordinary bedroom wardrobe with this simple sliding door is innovative and more fashionable, and the wardrobe can also adapt to some of the drawbacks of barn doors to a certain extent. The door of the bedroom wardrobe can also be directly replaced by a barn door.
Location 2: Storage Room
If you want to design a laundry room or storage room in a hallway or corner space, you can install a barn door. An open kitchen can also add a barn door to store dust.
Location 3: Space partition
Using it as a space partition is also a good choice, maintaining the advantages of beauty and elegance, and avoiding unsuitable outcomes due to poor airtightness and other disadvantages.
Location 4: Kitchen
Families with a heavy daily diet do not recommend using barn door designs as they are prone to oil fumes. If necessary, it is important to deal with the problem of oil fumes, such as joining the reader community and buying a high-quality and affordable range hood.
The bright colored barn door lights up the entire house, providing a great decorative effect. Moreover, the sliding design does not take up space, which is a favorite element among female homeowners. A sliding rail is installed on the door. After closing, the restaurant can be separated from the kitchen, and when opened, it creates a beautiful scenery. The unique opening and closing method of the barn door brings more personality and fun to the restaurant area.
Location 5: Bathroom
The barn door can also be used in the bathroom. If it is used inside the bathroom, it is important to consider the issues of dry and wet separation and moisture prevention.
Location 6: Bedroom
If the room is not large, the barn door can also be used in the bedroom. The stylish appearance of the barn door also serves as a partition between the bedroom and the living room.
At the same time, in order to ensure privacy, a sliding track barn door is installed in front of the bedroom. If guests do not have time to tidy up during visits, they can easily pull the door open and close it behind the door to protect the privacy of the homeowners.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of barn doors?
Advantages:
The simplified design of the warehouse door features simple and fashionable lines, high aesthetic value, and good texture.
2. Easy to install, individuals with strong hands-on abilities can go to battle and install doors themselves.
3. The cost-effectiveness is relatively high, and the price is cheaper than ordinary aluminum alloy sliding doors on the market. Moreover, the door panels can be recycled, polished, and repainted for use. (You can use your own old wooden door panels for renovation)
Sliding doors can save space. It can be opened and hung at any time, even if one door blocks two wall openings. For example, bedrooms and study rooms, cabinets and door openings.
However, barn doors inevitably have some drawbacks.
1. Poor airtightness.
When installing the barn door, it is necessary to reserve a space of 10-15mm from the wall (including the exposed skirting line, which is 15-20mm), and the door panel should also maintain a gap of about 10mm from the ground to ensure smooth sliding. Poor sealing directly leads to problems such as poor sound insulation, poor privacy, cross odor, and poor insulation.
2. There are restrictions on installing walls.
The barn door is a suspended door on the upper track, with the force point located on the upper track. When installing, the beams on the door opening must be load-bearing, preferably made of reinforced steel structures poured into the building itself. If it is a rebuilt wall, it is best to use a cast-in-place concrete wall or a red brick wall. It is recommended to give up hollow brick, light brick and foam brick walls. After all, safety comes first.
3. Locking is quite troublesome.
The installation of barn doors requires sufficient space for installation and sliding on both sides and top. Although it can be locked, installing a locking plate when making indoor doors can affect the decorative effect, and it is not easy to operate whether the locking plate is installed on the inside or outside.
4. Mainly relying on online shopping, taking on high risks.
There are relatively few physical stores for barn doors, mainly online shopping. However, online shopping also carries a relatively high risk. If there are noise, unsmooth pushing and pulling of hardware components after online shopping is shipped and installed, it is also difficult to negotiate after-sales issues with the merchant.
The main hardware components of the barn door are the suspension rail of the door body and the ground stop, also known as the ground rail. Wooden doors must be equipped with swing arresters, while glass doors can be unsafe. The quality of the track determines the safety factor and user experience of the door, so choosing a high-quality track is very important, even more crucial than the door itself.
The barn door has higher requirements for hardware, and the better the hardware, the smoother and quieter the pulling. The hardware of barn doors has become increasingly mature.
