Cheap and Easy DIY Farmhouse Door

Learn how to make a cheap and easy DIY farmhouse door with this easy tutorial. The best part is, it goes right over your existing door.

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The total cost of wood for this project came out to around $22. If you wanted to replace all the doors in your home with farmhouse interior doors, they cost around $175 per door. That is hundreds of dollars you can save by making this cheap and easy DIY farmhouse door yourself.

If you have been following along with our home renovation, you know that we bought a builder grade home from the 80s. I mean really, straight from the 80s! My dream is to own some land and my very own farmhouse, but here in Florida land is expensive. I decided to find the beauty within my home and add my own farmhouse character and charm. Who says you have to live out on a farm to decorate your home with farmhouse style? Not me! Now let’s change my builder grade door to a farmhouse one!

TIPS FOR ADDING A FARMHOUSE DOOR TO YOUR HOME

We used thin underlayment plywood 4 foot by 8-foot sheets.

When choosing your boards be sure to look for any blemishes or if they are bowed. Smooth and straight will work best for your DIY Farmhouse Door.

SUPPLIES AND TOOLS

• Plywood underlayment: (one sheet will cover one side of the door) 4′ by 8′ plywood at 1/5″ thickness
• Circular saw: for cutting pieces to different lengths.
• Table Saw
• Wood Glue
• Nail gun – We bought a battery-operated nail gun and use it all the time. It is so nice not having to have the compressor. Obviously, a nail gun with compressor works just as well. (If you don’t have nail gun, you can of course just hammer them in).
• Hammer
• Nails: we used 1″ length nails
• Painting supplies: roller, paint brush, primer, paint
• Sandpaper
• Door knob

HOW TO INSTALL THE CHEAP AND EASY DIY FARMHOUSE DOOR

Here are your step-by-step instructions.

STEP ONE: PURCHASE MATERIALS AND GET MATERIALS READY FOR YOUR PROJECT

1. You can purchase through the links above or from your local hardware store like Lowes and Home Depot.

STEP TWO: PREPPING THE EXISTING INTERIOR DOOR

1. Take your existing door down and off the hinges.
2. Wipe them down and get any dust off.
3. Take off the door knob, hardware, and hinges.

STEP THREE: START PUTTING ON THE UNDERLAYMENT WOOD

1. First, you need the whole door to be flat. If you own a flush style (flat) door then you are actually in luck and can skip directly to step four (Step four: start putting on the side trim pieces).
2. Lay the thin underlayment wood onto the ground. Lay the interior door directly on top of the thin underlayment and line up the edges flush on the bottom and right side. This way you do not have to measure, you can just trace the top and left side of the door. These lines are where you will make your cuts.
3. Cut the underlayment on the pencil lines you just drew, using a table saw. Note: You can do this whole project with a circular saw if that is the only saw you own. Since we own the other tools, we will be using a few different saws.
4. Tip: Always layout your cut pieces on top of the existing door first to make sure everything fits and looks good before you glue anything down.
5. The next step, apply wood glue to the back of the thin underlayment wood and adhere the board to the door.
6. To add more security, use some nails as well. You can either use a nail gun or if you don’t have one you can use a good old-fashioned hammer and nails.
7. Once the whole door is covered and the board is in place, you will put on the sides, and then the top, bottom, and middle pieces.

STEP FOUR: START PUTTING ON THE SIDE TRIM PIECES

1. You can pick any farmhouse interior door style that you like. I went with a very simple design.
2. The side pieces and top piece I kept all the same width. I liked the look of 4 inches for those pieces.
3. Take one of your remnant pieces and measure 4 inches thick, and 80 inches in length. Make your pencil marks to know where to cut.
4. You will make the cuts with a table saw.
5. Once they are cut, dry fit them, and make sure that you measured and cut correctly.
6. The next step, apply wood glue to the back of the thin underlayment wood and adhere the board to the door.
7. To add more security, use some nails as well. You can either use a nail gun or if you don’t have one you can use a good old-fashioned hammer and nails.

STEP FIVE: PUT YOUR TOP TRIM PIECE ON

1. You will want to measure from inside to inside of where the side trim pieces are. That is your length measurement for the top piece. Your width is 4 inches. Make a pencil mark so you know where to make your cut.
2. Make your width cut with a table saw, and the length cut with a miter saw.
3. Once cut, dry fit, and you made sure that you measured and cut correctly.
4. The next step, apply wood glue to the back of the thin underlayment wood and adhere the board to the door.
5. To add more security, use some nails as well. You can either use a nail gun or if you don’t have one you can use a good old-fashioned hammer and nails.

STEP SIX: PUT YOUR BOTTOM TRIM PIECE ON

1. For the bottom trim piece, I liked the look of an 8-inch width.
2. You will want to measure from inside to inside of where the side trim pieces are. That is your length measurement for the bottom piece. Your width is 8-inches. Make a pencil mark so you know where to make your cut.
3. Make your width cut with a table saw, and the length cut with a miter saw.
4. Once cut, dry fit, and you made sure that you measured and cut correctly.
5. The next step, apply wood glue to the back of the thin underlayment wood and adhere the board to the door.
6. To add more security, use some nails as well. You can either use a nail gun or if you don’t have one you can use a good old-fashioned hammer and nails.

STEP SEVEN: PUT YOUR MIDDLE TRIM PIECE ON

1. For the middle trim piece, I liked the look of a 7-inch width.
2. You will want to measure from inside to inside of where the side trim pieces are. That is your length measurement for the middle piece. Your width is 7-inches. Make a pencil mark so you know where to make your cut.
3. Make your width cut with a table saw, and the length cut with a miter saw.
4. Once cut, dry fit, and you made sure that you measured and cut correctly.
5. The next step, apply wood glue to the back of the thin underlayment wood and adhere the board to the door.
6. To add more security, use some nails as well. You can either use a nail gun or if you don’t have one you can use a good old-fashioned hammer and nails.

STEP EIGHT: CUT THE HOLE FOR YOUR DOOR KNOB

1. There are a few different ways you can do this part. So, feel free to do it the way you feel most comfortable.
2. We own a router so we are going to use our router and a top bearing flush trim bit to cut the hole.

STEP NINE: WOOD FILL

1. You will need to wood fill any joints that have too much of a gap. Also, any nail holes. You can leave the nail holes if you want a more rustic look. We are going to fill them for this project.
2. Make sure to allow time for it to dry, then sand it down smooth, then you can paint.

STEP TEN: PRIME AND PAINT YOUR FARMHOUSE DOOR

1. Before you paint, you will need to prime the DIY farmhouse door
2. After the primer is dry, I painted with Sherwin Williams Alabaster in satin finish.

STEP ELEVEN: REPEAT STEPS FOR BACK OF THE DOOR

If you want the door to have the same farmhouse design on the back as you do the front, you will need to repeat all of the above steps on the other side of the door.

STEP TWELVE: ADD THE DOOR HANDLE AND HARDWARE, AND HANG THE DOOR

1. We put all the hardware and hinges back on the doors.
2. Hang the door back up on the hinges.
3. Next, we put on the door handle.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS WHEN DOING THIS PROJECT

1. Did you have to adjust the hinges? No, we didn’t adjust or change the hinges in any way.
2. Did you have to adjust the casing or door jam? We did have to adjust the door jam (inner trim inside the casing). To get the trim off, just score down the edges and pry it off. Then, close the door and put the trim snug up against the door (not too snug) and nail it back up. It was super easy. Last thing, caulk all the joints around the trim that you took off, wood fill any nail holes, and repaint.

Our cheap and easy DIY farmhouse door is done!!!

It came out so beautiful! This was an easy, cheap way to make our boring builder grade door come to life! The total cost of this project was around $22!

I hope you enjoyed this project as much as I did! Thanks for stopping by my faux Florida farmhouse!

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