On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 12:04:49 PM UTC-5, -MIKE- wrote:
Ever since the TV home shows have been installing barn doors in all
remodels, the big box stores have started carrying them and the
requests for installations have been pouring in to every carpenter in
suburbia.

I figured I would wait out the fad and in 10 years I'd make a fortune
taking them out after people's frustration in using them overcomes their
overwhelming urge to be trendy. After all, they aren't really any
different than pocket doors other than the fact that they are much
easier to put back on the tracks when they slip off.

Well, I resisted as long as I could but finally had a client who really
wanted them in a closet build-out I was doing in her basement
converted-bedroom.

I with you! I sure thought they would go away...

But I saw a home selling for about 1.1 million bucks on a video tour of the parade of homes in a very exclusive new development, and it had TWO of those damn things in them. They got some heavily weathered barn wood somewhere and built them out of that. It looked like they even took time to "weather" the nail heads. I thought they looked awful and out of place, but the realtor's voice over absolutely crowed over them.

The good news is your install looks nice, neat and professional. Good job on that!

I have only had one client approach me about doing that for them, and I escaped as they ran out of money by the time I did the rest of their remodel. I have a question for you: did you hang those by yourself? The doors look pretty heavy, just wondering.

Robert