The Snowball Effect

It all started with a door hinge...Our daughter, Sophie's door fell off the hinge, literally!  The whole darn door. The screws striped right out of the door casing.  A few trips to home depot, 3 packs of screws, each one larger than the previous one and none of them worked.  So, Sophie had a curtain on her door for a few weeks.

We dedcided we would get all of the doors working in the house.  Two of the closet doors stuck, our bedroom door didn't lock (thank goodness for flip locks) and when you closed the bathroom door, you had a 50/50 chance of being locked inside.  

Once the doors were taken down and all the old trim & casing removed we started installing the new doors.  Unfortunately, they didn't fit in THIS old house.  So we special ordered new doors and waited 3 weeks.  My stress level was high with the race that weekend, no doors and out of town company arriving in 4 days!  Tom called it the Open-Air floor plan.

When the casing came down, so did part of the wall around the doors.  Patch and new gray paint.  We used Tern Grey (1/2 strength) from Porter Paints. While we waited on the doors, we added some detail trim work going up the stairs.  I also painted the railing with a fresh coat of black paint.

Since we needed to fix the plaster around each door, including the bathroom.  I thought I would take down the nasty salmon colored tile in the bathroom.  So 3 swings of a sledge hammer tuned into a few weeks of "oh shit, what have I done?"  We gutted the bathroom!

This is the bathroom where the sliding barn door is going.