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Well we now have locksets on all the upstairs doors! Even the bathroom.
Here is the bathroom at the beginning of the evening:
Once I prepped the door and chiseled out the strike plate, I typically paint the inside of the strike hole black to clean it up.
And all done:
Unlike all the rest of the door hardware on this floor, we went with brushed nickel to correspond with the bathroom finishes.
We are almost done with the 2nd floor project so we can move on to the Living Room! So time to finish up the hardware…
Back Bedroom Door:
Done,
I have heard it’s nice to have handles on bedroom doors!
Next Up… Orange Bedroom closet door. This was a completely new prep
And done!
Thank you Uncle Wayne for all the salvaged door knobs! They look great.
Our orange bedroom door was missing something… Something round…
The hardware! It’s actually about as mismatched as you an get but you’d never know by looking at it. Mortise lockset: reused from our house. Door knobs: cleaned up salvaged pieces given by Rob’s uncle. Escutcheon (part with the key hole): “new” pieces installed in bright brass by previous owners, spray painted by us. New and improved, for way less than a brand new ‘vintage’ looking mortised lockset:
Thumb turn lock: original to door, paint removed as much as possible without the crockpotting method. The keyhole itself isn’t operable right know because we have no key.
These pieces we bought at the hardware store. Still need to do some touch up painting:
Whew, one door down! Bathroom and guest bedroom still to go.
Ladies* and Gentlemen, may we present…
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Our bathroom door:
This is the door we added height and width to, so the next step was to route out the hinges in our living room workshop. This is way clean, btw:
Perfect. Now screw in the hinges:
Then route the door frame for those hinges:
Hinges Meet Door, Hinges Meet Frame:
There may be some finishing touches (paint, knob, lock, handle-side stop, blah) but who cares about all of that if your rebuilt door is swinging on awesome hinges?
*aka Laura of Our Beech House
We found these lovely hinges at Olde Good Things in Scranton, after digging thru their piles and buckets of hardware. They’re definitely different from all the other hinges in our house, but they’re so cool so we decided to use them on our bathroom door*. First they needed some steel wool and then it was time for spray paint action:
The second set is original to 1900′s reno, but unfortunately these copper plated hinges, which I stripped in the crock pot, wouldn’t clean up as well as their earlier brethren. These are slated for re- installation at the bedroom door. So we decided to paint them too:
Only the best periodicals and boxes were selected as drop cloths. Clearly Black Friday 2011 was all about… manicures?
Ready for their new life on Madison Square:
All ready to go:
*That’s right, we’re actually going to install a door!
Fitting in a little here & there in between a bunch of sniffles combined with holiday planning. Here’s a trick I saw online somewhere (oldtownhome.com, maybe?) to fill in old hinge screw holes with toothpicks and wood glue. Then cut them off when dried:
Putty-ing the doors Rob worked on last night. Pre-putty:
After putty… I’ll still have some sanding to do:
Tested out the ceiling paint… It’s definitely gold:
Gold swatches for the foyer:
I love heating up some painted door hardware on a Sunday afternoon, and since today we took the little bedroom door down for some r&r, I thought I’d get a head start on cleaning up the hardware:
I cranked our hardware-only crock pot up to high this time and used laundry detergent and hand soap in the water. After a few hours I fished this out:
The flatter the object, the easier the paint peels off:
A Hinge:
Clean and ready for a polish and reinstall!
Sooo easy! I love this trick!
Its Monday, again. Rob’s working on the window, and I’m helping when needed / filling in with little projects and practical stuff like laundry. Exciting! So here’s a bit of what’s happening outside the little bedroom. Window details:
The window, chillin in the hall:
A bulge of loose plaster in the hall, where there is a cast iron stack pipe behind the wall. I was able to pull the plaster in with our fave plaster washers in the areas to the left & right of the stack:
But in the end realized the only way to really fix it was to pull out the plaster and put a drywall patch in. Hence the new hole. Sigh.
I also cooked and cleaned some hinges which we may use for the orange bedroom closet, or not. But either way they’re clean now:
Window update soon!
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