Home Improvement Projects

One of the things that needed to be fixed when we moved in was the patio doors. We had planned on just replacing them, but when Dad was here he gave us a way to fix them so we could put off having to buy new doors for awhile. We are happy to say this is one project we did pretty much all by ourselves. Well we had a little help from Pastor and very specific step step instructions from dad, but still we exucuted it ourselves so that should count for something. :)  So here are pictures of the before, sanding, the primer, and for now the finished coat. We'll put another coat on this spring after we hopefully have both doors opening and had a little more practice with painting. I believe the proper quote dad shared with us for this situation is "at least its clean."

           The other project we did this weekend was door knobs. When we moved in EVERY door in the house had an outside door knob that needed keys to unlock. Very weird! And of course we didn't have keys to them either. Seemed like a disaster waiting to happen so we went and got 13 new door knobs and changed all the doors to normal inside ones. They look nice and well it just makes more sense. No pictures of them though. Thought that'd be a little cheezy. :)

Before with the rotting bottom

Logan using the new sander

April hand sanding the fancy middle

All primed

And they're painted!

Looking good!