Interior Doors

Recently, Michael completed his latest home project: replacing all of the interior doors. We originally had these plain, white, cheap looking doors (original to the house) with brass looking handles (also cheap and crappy). We decided to replace them with nicer, 6 paneled doors with new, brushed nickel handles. I thought this project would be very difficult and take a lot of time. Therefore I was surprised when Michael finished the whole house in about a month!

I thought actually hanging the doors would take the longest (since I've heard that it can be very difficult to hang a door straight), but actually painting them required the largest time commitment. First Michael chiseled out the spot for the hinges, then he had to paint them. They came pre-primed, but needed two coats of paint on either side before they could be hung. Since its winter, they didn't dry very fast out in the garage, and we (I helped a little) ended up painting them on sawhorses in the kitchen. Each coat of paint took about 30 minutes, plus about an hour of dry time. Therefore each door required about 6 hours of prep work before they went up. Fortunately, the hanging process only took about 30 minutes and another 15 to install the handle. Michael hung one or two doors every weekend until he had finished the whole house.

The before and after images are amazing! It really changes the way the house looks and gives it a touch of class (and as we have established before, we are a classy family!). Especially since we have crown moldings and nice moldings around the doors already, these doors fit right in and make the existing moldings really pop. I am so lucky to be married to such a handy guy, and one that is willing to make cosmetic changes to the house, on the whims of his wife (who doesn't end up helping with these projects very much)!