The last big-ticket upgrade!

It's so exciting to finally wind down on the big, expensive remodeling to our home. This week, we had exterior doors installed in the front and back! Here you see it on the outside and inside. Personally, I don't think these photos do justice to the huge difference this door makes to our curb appeal plus our living room. Love it!

It was funny because when I went into the living room to look at it I asked one of the workers if they had painted our door trim white. He got a funny look on his face and said they had thrown out our door trim and replaced it with new. Turns out their "new" is the exact same pattern (Colonial) as the rest of our trim! Funny.

There were some challenges for the workers to install both of these doors. In the case of the front door, the space just wasn't wide enough for the new door to fit, even with every splinter of previous frame removed. So one lucky guy got to chisel the brick down until it worked.

In addition to needing to fill the nail holes and gaps in the trim and paint it, I also need to replace four of the floor tiles in the front hall. The new doors have a much narrower threshold than the old ones and it left a gap. They put a piece of wood in the space as a filler for now. So as always with home improvement, you're never really done!

Here's what they had to do to the back door - also a lot of work. There was no previous door frame on it, so it had to be sawed down exactly as well, no wiggle room here. One guy worked on that for quite a while.

On the right is the finished door and it looks great! The mini-blinds encased inside the door are only about 1/2 inch wide! You're supposed to move the magnetic opener slowly and carefully to avoid a problem. The trim on that door will also be painted brown like the rest, which will give a little break to the much white on that wall. It's so nice to be able to close off the world with the blinds as needed!

We bought paint for the picnic table and a big bucket for the shed, so the fun continues...