Doors (not the Jim Morriso.n kind)

So the doors came in. First, let me give a shout out to Franks Lumber - The Door Store. Great experience! Get this, you take your doors in, the old doors. Leave them for a few hours and come back. They matched up all your doors to your new doors. You take them home, pop the pins back in and you are done. New doors. Crazy easy. (I did opt to change the hinges to satin nickle, so Mike had one more step, but still crazy easy)

We did have one door that wasn't shutting all the way, so we took it back, they shaved a bit more off right then and there and it went up. Had we known about this place and how easy they made it for us, we probably wouldn't have put off this task for the last few years. If you are in the Seattle area and need doors, seriously go there first. I can't say enough good things about them.

Well maybe I can - we are also creating a new doorway, so the door slab we bought didn't fit it right. Easy return, then the guy sat there with us for a good 20 minutes, on a Saturday no less, working out what would fit best in that opening. He is calling Mike back today after he confirms the specs with the manufacturer and we should have the new door for that this next weekend.

Anyways, without further ado....

Here is a before example



Here is the during, I call it during because it's just primed. We need to paint the door and trim (will be white) and the hall (sand). But we love them! So quiet with the solid core:



And finally, a picture through the living room arch, to show the reason we went with the two panel "Roman" arch:


Next up is finishing the new doorway and closing off the old one. Mike and Joe worked on that this weekend. The smart thing would have been to work on it *before* we cleaned the whole house... ha! Dry wall dust rocks every inch of the freshly dusted surfaces...