I believe that one day I’ll be able to say that we’ve completely renovated just about every inch of our home. I’ve made plans for each area and completed a number of major renovations so far, however it will still likely be a few years before I can make my claim.
One of the areas I’ve yet to address are interior and exterior doors. Our home was built in 1927 and I believe all of the interior doors are the original doors – complete with ancient hardware. Needless to say, doors that are 81 years old tend to have several coats of paint and a number of dings in them! As much as I like our doors I think we might replace a few of them. The rest I’ll try to refinish.
If you happen to be revamping or renovating your home you might want to take a look at the selection of Interior Wood Doors at Hardwood Door & Bevel.
Not only does Hardwood Door & and Bevel have a wide selection of beautifully designed interior and exterior hardwood doors, wrought iron doors, French doors, bevels, windows and hardware they will also create a custom door for you if you need a very specific height or width or have a custom design in mind.
As I said our house was built in the 1920’s and the interior and entry doors are narrower than those in more modern homes. We might well have to get a custom door ourselves, or at the very least trim to sides of a pre-made door.
I spent some time on the site looking over the various styles of doors which range from hardwood doors of Oak, Maple, Mahogany, Cherry and distressed Alder to wrought iron and Rio Tuscany doors, solid MDF doors and various collections listed by brand and or style of door and I was pleased with the designs.
I also took a look at some of the custom doors that they’ve created and in a word they are gorgeous. Seriously. If you need a new door or believe that you might want to have a custom made door in the future do take the time to visit the site and bookmark it. I think you’ll be as pleased with the selection as I was!
That is a great site, I will definitely bookmark it. My wife and I just bought an old house in Los Angeles, I believe it is built around the 60s. The current door is water logged so we are really thinking about replacing it. I’m looking toward a mahogany hardwood door, but we’ll see what my wife has to say about that. lol
This site is great. Full of informative stuffs about houses. I’ll need to tell my husband about this great article, maybe we want to avail this.
Amazing how hard it is to strip 80 years of paint off.. Considering modern paint must be better, it certainly strips off a lot easier!
As the owner of a joiners in LondonI know how hard it is to get an old door back to its original condition. One option is to take a door to a joinery company and have them replicate them for you. As you can appreciate, this is not the cheapest option. Having said that, there is also a lot of satisfaction to be had from refurbishing the old doors. There are few things more satisfying that looking around a beautiful home and thinking, I did that.
Good luck with the rest of your project, it will be worth it in the end.