We're building a batten board and stone farmhouse in Chester County PA and worked hard to incorporate barn doors into our design. Love them.

If you have the space for them, go !

I like the look of them, but they don't seem really practical - there's always a gap and cannot be locked. I think I prefer the old fashioned pocket door.

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I like them to but they are very trending and overdone.

I actually would love to have one of this if I run into renovation in future.

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My family and I are hoping to move into our new house in the next two weeks. The home is on a dairy farm in rural Chester County PA, so we believe the rustic wood elements are appropriate.

We have not painted yet, obviously.

The doors were made from wood floors in the springhouse of my wife's family farm. My wife and I, along with her father and brother disassembled the springhouse by hand several years ago and stored all of the boards and beams for future reclamation. The farm was established in 1763 and this springhouse, which had a living/working quarters upstairs was built shortly thereafter, before 1800.

One of the beams, the one used for the mantle, is American chestnut which was all but eliminated from existence because of blight in the early 1900's -so it is very special to us.

The hangers and tracks are from an old carriage house in Philadelphia which was carefully disassembled so that the parts could be re-purposed and given new life as has been accomplished here.

Love barn doors. Great piece of history that doesn't take up much room. Can function as practical or decorative.

Love em but WAY too over used. A trend that has reached it's half life.

I love them, husband hates them. This is one where I compromised. He gives in on lots of stuff too!

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So many nice things about a barn door. It saves space. It's easy to install. It's charming and it's on trend!

Absolutely love barn doors! The hardware & door materials are endless. Plus they become almost artwork on the walls of the interior space!

I love mine, we used them to make my small house wheelchair accessible.

I would love to have one in the basement to close off an old coal shoot room.

My time...used to feed that coal furnace, take the clinkers out for driveway aggregate, and later, on Natty Gas conversion, the coalroom (Paint it Black) became my bedroom escape "UP through the chute"...We lived in an old BARN!!!!!!

I am using the idea of a barn door instead of a traditional hinged door to separate the master bedroom from the new master bath. I hate the idea of open bathrooms and to save space a barn door was the perfect alternative. Our new bathroom is a cross over of modern and traditional and will be white and light grey. So we want the door to be white and the hardware to be stainless steel, and maybe kind of funky. Or a little shabby chic. And that's been popular forever! So who really knows how long this will be around. But if you love the look there are a lot of ways to change them to coincide with new trends. Our contractor pouted when I told him I loved pocket doors, so this was the best alternative. A happy contractor is worth their weight in gold!

Having worked on a dairy farm, I think they are ugly and intrusive in a home.

It really depends on the decor..

Was always apprehensive about using them due to gaps. Any good solution/ product that takes care of gaps?

I know this sounds crazy, but I put velcro 'buttons' between the doors and they now stay in place.

@Modus Enterprises - depending on the reasoning behind the desire to remove the gaps, a simple garage door type seal would work. It conceals the gap, but is flexible to allow the door to open/close without any noticeable rubbing. Otherwise, the gap shouldn't be much of an issue. The door panel itself should overlap the opening by at least 2" on each side, so any concern about "peeking through" is removed. Covering the gap really should only be needed for weathersealing or reducing light transmittance.

@lindaart - that is a creative solution! Did you use them to keep 2 doors together in the middle or was that to keep them from swaying in/away from the wall?

Post Frame Accessories: Thanks! I used just three little buttons, placed high on the edge between the doors separating my studio from the house. Our two little dogs discovered that with a little nudge, they could rock the doors a bit, get their noses into the resulting crack, and push the doors aside. Devils! The buttons were just enough to stop them.

Oh my! that would be troublesome! If you find you need additional holding power, a simple hook & eye latch may be just what you need since it has a low profile and screws into the doors.

For safety's sake, I find that troublesome - this way, the doors can easily be opened from either side - by a human!

Late coming to this discussion, but I think barn doors are so ugly, not to mention impractical. Unless you live in a farm house, where they could be very cute, they just seem trendy and painfully hipster.

We will be installing barn doors to cover under counter washer/dryer area which will be located just outside kitchen when we do remodel next month

I love them. Here is a barn door on a walk-in pantry for a kitchen we did last year.

Sorry, not a fan. I like the clean look of a regular door or a pocket door. The barn door craze has far too much visible hardware that gets dirty and isn't easy to clean. I think this fad is going to go the way of the shower tile horizontal stripe.

This poll was posted over 3 years ago, and barn doors are still going strong! I see them sticking around for quite a bit longer!

For very occasional use, especially where a pocket door is difficult to install, I use them. But, as a design accent, I think they are a passing fad, that will look out of date in ten to fifteen years.

Gerety Building and Restoration writes: "This poll was posted over 3 years ago, and barn doors are still going strong! I see them sticking around for quite a bit longer"

Trends usually happen in decade-long or so peaks from what I can tell. The "dark floor trend" is nearing it's end and it started in 2006 or so, peaking in about 2011. Now the new trend is light floors and this will last about 10 years, this is coming out of Europe and is very strong there. Super-light-tone flooring was difficult to find in 2011 (or very expensive), now it's available through every distributor.

Light woods (paneling, flooring, kitchens) were hot in 1973 and lasted until about 1987 or so. Then things went medium and "all things cherry" for a decade or so and then very dark. Espresso furniture tones became hot, IMO, because of the Starbucks coffee craze in the west which spread like wildfire to the east.

I wonder if it will eventually all blend together and eclecticism will take over?

What I also wonder is this: If you have space for a barn door, why not simply use a pocket door? Less hardware showing, better fit to the door frame and you still get a wall to use for art if you want it. The barn door precludes having any decor - except the barn door! Not something I'd like to stare at, personally. I have not seen barn-door-as-painting yet, but I bet it's out there in some horrible form somewhere... Cheers!

Design of doors, basically the same, hardware, panels and height vary with design of home as a given. Pocket doors/standard interior doors better on bedroom/bath areas

It's called a barn door. Leave it in the barn and install a pocket door.

Loved them at first but they are getting really over done. Not the right choice for most design applications. Pocket doors are better.

We are very happy with our decision to enclose laundry area with barn doors.

Classiest barn doors I've ever seen, mharon!

I like barn doors if the wall space accommodates. I am no fan of pocket doors. We had one in house we bought separating vanity from toilet & shower. Cursed thing would not stay on its track. When we did major add'n in '83-'84, I had it replaced w/ hinged door. Barn doors weren't popular then, but if they had been, the wall space wouldn't have permitted one. When we reno'd that bath earlier this year, I widened door from 24" to 28", as we're seniors & I wanted access if walking appliances req'd. That wall definitely wouldn't accommodate a 28" pocket door.

Barn door are more popular now than ever. Many styles of doors, track, rollers, and attractive pulls. info@nyhardware.com

Love them! We even went with nautical-but-nice color scheme for a Mexico beach get-away. (Check out our design blog post on this very subject HERE)

Good dry wood and adequate hardware are most important

I like them, but a bathroom seems a less practical place for them. Like pocket doors, I would want them to be at an opening to a room where I plan to leave them open most of the time, but want to have the option of closing and don’t expect full sound privacy. I also want them in a place of high visibility to warrant the expense. Game rooms, home offices, TV rooms, pantries seem to be a good place for them.

We went for contemporary, minimalist look. Had to have special hardware because largest one was about 300 lbs. Doors are "solid" clear Douglas Fir, Artisan Hardware with extra runner wheels on top to hold extra weight, and lag-screwed into studs.

I like them almost anywhere but a bathroom. They don’t generally fit tight against the door frame and don’t give privacy to the person in the bathroom. The only way you can have privacy is to make the door significantly wider than the door opening.

I was keen on having a barn door between kitchen and befroom, but the kitchen layout changed, and there's no longer room on the wall to slide open. I'm fine with that. I guess I must be over barn doors.

I think they're hideous and will show up on one of those 'outdated trend' list very soon.