- Revelations 3:20 (New American Bible)
As this wonderful biblical verse states, a door is pretty important. Not only does it provide security, it also provides a threshold to invite many family members, friends, even strangers into your abode to share in your life's memories. This being said, an entry way door is very important.
and if that doesn't stop you, don't worry the mold on my inside frame will sure to add a perfect touch to your shoe when you kick me down."
Therefore, Big Red's first impression needed a face lift. From the picture on our left, Big Red's original door had a wonderfully semi-broken storm door. This door could be easily pushed by little Rose with one push of her foot (no exaggeration, especially as she bolted from the living room on deconstruction day #1).
This would be more work than expected... unfortunately, there were many unforeseen problems with this semi-difficult task.
In fact, Leo and our friend, Collin, thought the project would take only a few hours to pull out the entire door frame and reconstruct this beast of an entry way door. Little did we know that Big Red did not want any new additions, and started a nice fight between home vs. homeowner.
Due to old stripped and rusted screws/nails, the old frame was demolished and cut up. This took a few hours to plan and execute since Big Red would not happily let go of its past.
One of the larger set backs, the men discovered, after purchasing the new door, was that today's standard door frame is bigger than the 1970's version. This would mean hours of cutting a larger hole in the house framework, and cutting off some of the new door's edge work.
But 2 days later, Leo was semi-satisfied with his time and effort, and Maria was more than impressed with this task being done in an adequate way. Why pay someone to install a door when you only need to waste, I mean spend, 15 hours on a door yourself?
Leo says, "The project would have went faster, but I wanted the door perfectly level and square, which it is."
We feel that our new door is a beauty and a major upgrade for Big Red's new look. With this new door, Leo wanted to make sure that we had a wonderful new deadbolt system (it's automatic electronic locking feature), and new door handles to match the window of the door.
Needless to say, we LOVE it! Our little Rose and Nicholas have a semi-view of the family, friend, or neighbor who comes knocking on our door wanting to sit and eat with us.
Other fun projects completed by Leo around this time are: a brand new toilet for the upstairs bathroom, a new kitchen sink faucet, all new sink plumbing, and a new garbage disposal for our kitchen sink. These improvements stopped all the leaks that were present when we bought Big Red.
Who said a little sweat equity wouldn't get you great results?
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