Tagalong door Part 2: Glaze and Hang

First of all I am not sure if this is how it is going to stay, in fact I am sure it is not. But with bathroom demo about to start I need a door on the tagalong.  There is no more time, it is gone.  So sometime in the distant future (after a sailing season) the door will get more attention to fix it.

Glaze

I am not sure that is even a technical term. We were following this example, her bed turned out so nice! http://kleypas.blogspot.com/2010/11/guest-bed-makeover.html

So I got the stain from the dining project, some paint to match the light tones in the IKEA cabinets, and a little bit of water.  I mixed them up and tested them out.  At this point things were looking good. I started by brushing it on the door, letting it sit and wiping it off. This went well for one half of one side, then it stopped.  

The problem, I had too much paint, not enough stain.  The second side turned out much better because I kept more stain in the container.  It mostly floated on top.

Hang

The hardware is used boat parts. I can get them less expensively from work.  The barn door hardware was several hundred dollars, so we went with the system that I can afford and cover up later.

The track had 4 in hole spacing, so most of the holes were not on studs. Dad brought down plastic inserts to use on the drywall:

We attached the cars using Tee Nuts from McMaster Carr. The Tee Nuts get pressed into the door and then threaded on to the eye-bolts, the eye-bolts fit on the cars using a toggle (see picture below).  The first time we put the cars on the track tee nuts came out, ie the door crashed to the floor.  So at 8:30 on Friday I ran to home depot, thinking that they closed at 9pm.  (But it is summer and they are now open until 10pm, I am not sure if this is good or bad.) I picked up some epoxy and on Saturday morning, in order to give the epoxy time to set, we put it the door on the track and it held!

I refused to take pictures of it until Sunday, when it had been in use fora day. Here the door is open (note that this is side two that turned out better):

The door closed:

The last thing to do was to make an end stop so the door cannot come off the track.

 

I have gotten very good reviews about the door.  And now that the second bathroom has a door we can start the full bathroom remodel (joy)