Hello all. As we begin winding down our renovation, we have one major interior project left. Upstairs we need to install two more interior doors to match what we put on the bathroom. Downstairs we have opted for something different.
Throughout the entire house are these doors from the manufacturer--plastic, brown (we painted this one), with faux wood grain. Fine but not all that nice.
Step one in "operation double door" was to get nice, solid pine doors from HD. Then we had to trim them to fit the space, both length and width.
Once the door is the right size, we needed to cut a hole for the handle. Fortunately there are cheap, simple guides like this from Ryobi (you can tell the brand by the lime green color).
This kit comes with the drill bits as well, so with a little patience and we had our cutouts.
Routering for the hinges followed the earlier steps for the bathroom door.
There's still a little routering to do around the door handle because there's a plate around the little part that retracts and actually holds the door closed. Plus we're going to paint these white or stain them clear. Still deciding.
Now all we have to do is repeat these steps four more times!
Until next time.
