Door Painting Weekend

Not too long ago my hallway looked like this - new doors with no paint and concrete foundation floors - in fact, it was like that for a long time, probably more than a month. Don't even ask how long it was before the doors went in and all that time, no floor. It was the best of times (yeah right!), it was dusty times!

Then we finally put in the wood floor but still no paint for the doors and we've had our floors since some time in October, so a couple months have past. Oh and this pic shows no baseboards (those were done shortly after the floor thanks to Zack, my very handy son-in-law):

Also need to show you the creative way we handled the corner in the hallway - the installer had never done this before because there were some edges that had no tongue and grove, but I really wanted it done that way so he agreed to do it. He said it would be okay since we were gluing to the foundation. He was excited with the outcome and took several pics.

 

Now it's time to paint the doors. This is a dreaded job. We're using oil based paint on all the trim and this is a lot of painting. There are seven doors in the hallway plus the linen cupboard - then there's one other door to the laundry room that needs to be done. And did I mention that the door to our office is a french door? We're talking some painting.

We got a bid for a painter to do the job and along with repainting the walls and ceiling the bid came in at $1000. My dear sweet hubby just couldn't give away $1000 for doing something that he and Zack, my very handy son-in-law, could do themselves. So, Zack came over two days this week after work and primed the doors. Now tomorrow and Sunday he and DH are going to knock it out. I'm so happy, this is the last really big job before the renovation is completely done.

Here's a pic of the hallway this morning - doors primed, contractor paper down (see the baseboards?). Zack said the contractor paper probably made me feel like I was at home again! He's not far off, we've been living in renovation hell for so long I don't remember what it's like to have a house that's done.

Till later ~

Reba