Paddy O'Door

Just in time for the St. Patrick's Day holiday, we completed our final major framing project. Can you guess what it is? Having the new side door installed in the dining room (which will eventually lead out onto a beautiful deck in the side yard, we swear) allows us to get moving on the electric portion of this magnificent undertaking.

Sadly, we did not find a pot o' gold when ripping out the wall. It sure would have come in handy too. With the best intentions to stand against our consumerist nature, we visited our local rebuilding center, Bring. Very cool place. In fact we just donated a truck load of items to them this weekend. At Bring we found our door. Only $75, how great to save money and recycle! Deder spent the time to grind off the old paint down to the wood so that we could use the same oil finish that we put on the front door. The following weekend, we had our contractor friend, Jesse, over and he informed us that the door's unjammed condition simply would not do. So we contacted the local jammers and took the door on over. $130 later, our inexpensive patio door (now $235 for those of you who are counting + what we ended up paying our contract friend to help) was ready to install.

So we had Jesse back over and voila! Check it out.