Okay people, it's Artsy-Fartsy Corner! Here's another one of my seemingly-endless supply of DIY projects, chronicled from start to finish.
Always on the lookout for fugly old pieces of crap that might have the potential to be made beautiful, I scavenged this old-as-dirt door from the house of a friend. The house itself is over 100 years old, but I doubt this door's an original. By the fittings I'd guess it to be 30s vintage.
Always on the lookout for fugly old pieces of crap that might have the potential to be made beautiful, I scavenged this old-as-dirt door from the house of a friend. The house itself is over 100 years old, but I doubt this door's an original. By the fittings I'd guess it to be 30s vintage.
This is Phase One of the Door Project, lots of paint-scraping goodness as I make my way through the decades of peeling paint on this thing. The body of this door is solid wood (the inserts are heavy plywood), so once I get it stripped, I'll decide if it's good enough quality for staining or if it needs painting. What goes in the window is anyone's guess -- either some kind of stained glass, or possibly a plywood insert, to be painted in an as-yet-undetermined design. Or... whatever. Tile? I'm open to suggestions.Who knows what this thing might end up looking like? Not me!
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