so I just came down to build the barn door for my studio and I was going to build it out of I'm not even sure plywood and the same furring strips that I built my picture ledge out of and wax I use the same treatment but I purchased this door at the local lumberyard well I don't even know a year ago it's exactly the width that I want it to be someone clean it up put it down right around with some same colors this is actually a fiberglass door and it has grain indentation so it looks like real wood but it does not accept traditional stain I used a gel stain but I quickly realized I was not going to be able to achieve the look I wanted if I was going for a real wood look so I decided I'd go with my other option for the store which was an old chippy paint but before I started painting I needed to cut the door down to size the inside of the door was full of expandable foam so I used some construction adhesive and glute a little strip of wood back on and then used clamps to hold it in place until the glue set up I couldn't nail it into place because it was foam and then I just ignored the clamps and started painting I used some Johnson paste wax and patted globs of wax around the door in random places and then I painted over that and the door with some milk paint the milk paint crackles and chips on its own but then in the areas where the waxes you can scrape it off in large chunks I actually trimmed the door on both ends to keep the proportions of the top and bottom rails so I moved my clamps and painted the opposite side I did a second coat of milk paint in a different color this one had a little bit of blue and I used the wax again scraped off some of the paint brushed a little more paint on I just continued to coat the door randomly with different colors of paint scraping off wiping back on and and just making it look as random and kind of awful as I could like if you had a five-year-old and you wanted to just let him go crazy with the door painting it would probably end up looking really good in the end so sometimes I'd clean up the paint scrapings and sometimes I leave them on there and paint over them because I feel like that just adds to the aging process and when you scrape them up in the next step it pulls off additional you know pieces of paint from the previous layer and pulls it off in a more random shape so I think the Messier you go the better it looks all the paint's that I used were and leftover paints that I have in my workshop some of them were cabinet paint so latex enamel some were milk paint and some were just a latex paint that you would use for walls I can't say that any one paint worked better than another I think the key is using the wax and then also scraping the paint back off before it dries completely it's dry to the touch but not starting to set at all sometimes I would scrape down to the bare wood and sometimes I would scrape off just one layer but depending on how hard I would push the scraper or how much wax I had applied in between layers I ended up with just a really really random exposure of the various layers of paint that I had put on to the store and I also discovered that using compressed air worked really well at pilling up the paint layers in kind of random patterns all of the colors that were peeking through were almost all various shades of grey and I wanted a little more greenish blue peeking through so I did one last coat of that and then coated the entire door again with my very lightest gray and then scraped up exposing the blue scraping through that and exposing the other grays and the Browns and just continue to scrape off until I got the door to look exactly how I wanted I finished up by applying a little bit of clear paste wax and I polished that with by hand and with an electric buffer and that I hope will kind of seal the door and keep any more paint from chipping and flaking off at this point I really had to scrape it off by hand so I don't think it's going to continue and chip and flake now that it's done I purchased my hardware from a local farm co-op this trolley rail and roller system it's usually cheaper at a tractor supply or farm and feed than it is through a barn door distributor that you find online the instructions for this one were useless so I had to figure it out and I don't show all my struggles but I did have to uninstall and reassemble one of the rollers that was put together bass-ackwards and also cut down my door by an inch because I had guesstimated wrong on the link but all's well that ends well penny and I installed the rail with no problems and once I got the door cut to size the door went into the rail easily and it slides smoothly I am going to have to install some guides on the floor to keep the door from hitting the wall I don't know if I'll install a handle or not I I like it how it looks just like this and I can just push it from one side to the other from the side of the door so don't really need one finished off the rail with an end cap and that is that I think this chippy paint old looking door looks super cool with my brick wall brick and plaster wall and the wood distressed picture ledge in the picture frames so I think the whole big picture design is coming together really well I'm excited to get this room finished so that is it for today thank you for watching and I will see you next time