It will help create a gap between the door and frame.
Interior barn door header board.
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Use a color that matches the door or the trim in your home.
Which is great if you re only ever going to have your door closed.
There should be one inch of space between the barn door and the wall frame.
Use the drywall anchors spacers and lag bolts to secure the mounting board.
In this project the mounting board was painted black and the edges rounded slightly for a more finished appearance.
It is advised not to install the track directly into the drywall so we first needed to install a header board above our door opening.
The hardware kit does not come with the supplies you will need to install a header board so you will have to get the piece of wood and interior screws separately.
Without the addition of this header board the door track would only have hit something called a header inside the wall which is basically two 2x4s stacked on top of each other in a couple of places over the doorway.