Front Door Impressions

Our painter is officially done!! When he first started working on the house both The Husband and I really liked him. He was really picky and saw imperfections that we would have never noticed. That didn't last long though. The longer he was at our house the sloppier he got. You could tell that he was just over the project and wanted it to be done. I am going to be finishing up any paint touches up that need to be done at the end just so that we don't have to deal with him anymore.

The last job that the painter did for us was to stain our exterior doors. We have three. The front door, the door off the kitchen to what will be the deck, and the door from the family room which will eventually lead to a patio or a lower level of the deck. We really like how the front door turned out.

Before

After 

The outside of the front door

It's funny what a difference a few small changes can make.

The other two doors are a different story. They are a different wood finish, they are oak and the front door is fir. We didn't really realize the difference until they were stained. We would have preferred that they were all the same but at this point we aren't willing to take the time to see if that was our mistake and we missed the difference on the quote or if we were just shipped the wrong doors. It looks like the stain didn't take as well to the other two side doors as it did the front so they aren't quite the same color. Plus the painter did a sloppy job. Once we are moved in and have a bit more time we might try to touch up the stain ourselves or see if there was a mistake made by our door supplier. For now we are just going to live with it. They look okay during the day, it's at night when all the kitchen lights (yup, we have lights!! I'll be back to talk about those later) are on that they look the worst. They are slowly growing on me, they don't look nearly as bad as they did when we first picked them up. Maybe I'll eventually learn to love them or maybe we'll replace with a better quality door down the road. For right now we have doors and that's what really matters.

Door from the Kitchen to the not-yet-built deck