New Door

We have been talking about replacing our front door for some time now. For two reasons...1) You could see light underneath it when it was closed. So you KNOW there was hot/cold air coming and going. And 2) because our door was kind of ugly and boring. It didn't have a window in it so it made the foyer very dark.

Well, I forgot to take a before picture, but I did manage to take a during picture.

The best part about this 'during' picture was that it shouldn't have even happened. These pictures were taken when an electrician was rewiring our lights to the front porch. That's right...rewiring, as in a completely new wire because the old one had been cut in half. The guy that was installing our door accidentally cut through the wire when he was removing the old door frame. He wasn't able to remove it without using a saw, which in all reality should have been completely okay, except that it is OUR house and there is nothing standard, normal or run-of-the-mill about it. For some stupid reason, when they build the house they ran the wire right along the top of the door, instead of up and out of the way. That is why the installer accidentally cut it.

I actually felt kind of bad for him. He had no way of knowing that wire was there, and then he had to wait around while I found someone who could come out right away, then wait another 1.5 hours for them to rewire it. All told it took about 6 hours for the installer to finish the door. The other real sacrifice we had to make was that it got pretty chilly in the house, what with having no front door. I'm definitely glad we didn't wait any longer.

 TA-DA! The finished door.

I really do like that it lets in light, and we have the privacy of a solid door. We didn't want one that Leinie could look out either because he is bad enough with other windows in the house. If he was actually able to see people at the door, I don't think our door would stay as pretty. So project #15 of 2,000 is done. (note-not exact numbers, but that is what it feels like.)