Looky looky!

Home Improvement Project #2 - Install French Doors for the Office

Estimated cost - $350
Estimated time to complete - 5 or 6 hours
Demolition - Some
Degree of difficulty (1-10) - about a 6, only because hanging doors is a bit of an art and we have some fitting issues

So, our tax refund was deposited into our checking account on Friday. Saturday morning we are at Lowes buying our brand new french doors. The big questions ... (1) glass or no glass, (2) pre-hung or make the jams, and (3) cut the doors to fit the opening or cut the opening to fit the doors.

We went with the pre-hung french doors with the glass and we did a little cutting on the doors and the opening.




So, approximately 10 hours and $390 later, we have the finished project.


Pretty snazzy! And Carey did an amazing job of finishing it off. They really look like they came with the house. But, don't look to closely at them when you come over ... the paint job is lacking a bit. We ran out of paint, so I will attempt to do some touch-ups this next week to pretty them up. But some areas are a bit beyond touch-ups. The wood bubbled up some in a couple of places. Not sure what happened. We will have to try to fix those areas another way. Also, the doors are a bit snug against each other. This was not planned, but after some thought, I would prefer it to be a bit difficult to open. That way, the little ones cannot open the door on their own. A child-proofing door hanging if you will. So, if Carey is working in the office, he won't have little visitors constantly coming in and out.

So, five years after telling Carey that I wanted french doors on the office (of course five years ago it was the office of our dream home in Granbury, which we sold after living there for only 14 months so that Carey could go to law school ... don't get me started on that) I FINALLY got them. Yay!!

And BTW, Home Improvement Project #1 was the deck ... which will be completed hopefully in the next couple of weekends. Can't wait for that!!!