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CHOOSING DOORS --
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Woods and Hardware, Art and Time
The wood we use, reclaimed from barns, flooring, and walls from olde homes, sheds, and stacks, has been exposed to the elements for decades or even centuries.
Woods, Hardware, Our Style, and More!
The Barndoorist usually works with steel coated in a rustic black finish. Some silver styles can be worked on but black is the typical style being worked with. While some wheel hangers may be similar to those found on the market, they are retrofitted and recoated at our shop during assembly. Bolt heads and lock nuts are the most commonly used pieces and bolt lengths are custom cut for each door width. These are also coated in rustic black in the shop and touched up on site when installing doors.
The Barndoorist uses bracket parts for some projects and fashions his own hand-made custom brackets for many door systems. Some are made from 1/4" thick steel and some are even more robust, using 3/8" thick steel. The Barndoorist often uses a metal bender, metal saw and sometimes a large hammer to shape some pieces. Other pieces may need to be sent out. Rails can be ordered and retrofitted to match our style, or can be fashioned from US steel stock in our shop. Spacers and stoppers can often be fully customized depending on job needs. Handles such as the railroad spike are drilled and colored black accordingly. The Barndoorist is always experimenting with new ways to make parts and has developed a new wheel hanger and some brackets for bypass doors using MIG welding.
Northshore Barn Doors prides itself on both making many of its own custom parts for doors and also retrofitting any part that may have been found on the market for use in a door project. We do not just buy and resell kit parts, rather, we rework pieces that make the hand-made rustic look come alive and fit perfectly into your home, retail or office space.
On this page are pictures of some of the wheel hangers used on our doors and some handles we offer with all projects. Other handles and parts can be used, and this is discussed when we meet and in subsequent communications during project planning. When we make our wheel hangers, we re-coat the black surface, and we use our own bolts and more secure lock nuts than ones sold online or in store-bought kits. Everything is made black using rustic coatings and sometimes new holes are bored in parts such as rails, brackets and wheel hangers in order to accommodate for larger, heavier and thicker doors.
The Barndoorist creates and retrofits hardware, usually done in a rustic black metal finish, and customizes parts for each project. Pictured here are just some examples of the specialized parts you might choose from. These may change but the quality is always there!
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