The kitchen/hallway French door took two days to install. We first needed to trim a tad off the top so that it would fit the out of square door opening.
We then needed to sand here and there so that the door would have a consistent margin around the door. Look at all the saw dust on the floor.
We then installed the vintage hinges I purchased on eBay. We decided to wait on installing the vintage glass door knobs until later just in case we need to sand some more.Here is a photo of the door taken from the hallway.
And the view of the new door from the kitchen. Knotty pine, anyone? Visualize the knotty pine painted white. Are you visualizing or just humoring me????
Friday's plan......start installing the door between the hallway and the game room. Saturday's plan is for R to go to the race track with G for practice and to dial in G's sprint car.Here is a link to a U Tube video of the Michigan Traditional Sprint Car Series 2009 Year in Review. That is the series R raced with last year and won Rookie of the Year despite being one of if not the oldest driver. See if you can pick out B, G, R, and extra points for picking out R's sprint car on the track. Make sure you check out Jack Hewitt's two seat sprint car. He actually takes people for a spin around the track. I was at a race track where you had to pay to enter a raffle for a chance to ride in it. The person that won changed their mind and they had to pull another ticket. Too scary for me that's for sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKRY_cZQ3ik
What a pretty door! As soon as I saw you knotty pine paneling I thought, "That would look great painted white", and then I continued reading. Great minds think alike?
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of being able to close the door but still have light shine through.
ReplyDeleteOne of the reason for the door was to help keep warm air in the kitchen and not have it sucked out of the room and flow up the staircase which is right across from the door.
I think white paint on the knotty pine will brighten the room. I'm planning on a white and black kitchen.
We have knotty pine in our breezeway of our house in Clinton Township. I painted it "Architectural gray" from Serwin Williams. It's a very soft, almost brownish gray, and it turned out so nice. And it totally updated and brightened up the room.
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