Hanging Doors, Part 5: Historic Hinges
The painted to death historic hinges we cooked the paint off of: Cleaned up a little bit after this, with the aid of some steel wool: Are now back on […]
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Hanging Doors, Part 4: Prep Existing Door
We’re reusing the paneled bedroom door. It’s solid wood, original to at least the 1900 reno, and heavy: However it does not have the original handle set, and what’s there […]
Hanging Doors, Part 3: Lock
For our hall closets we decided to go with discrete thumb turns rather than a full lockset. The prep requires two STRAIGHT holes be drilled. The lock slides in one […]
Hanging Doors, Part 2: Install Doors
If you did part 1 right, this is a relatively easy step. Align hinges and try not to crush anyone’s fingers Insert pin And swing door! Sounds easy but there […]
Hanging Doors, Part 1: Prepping Hinges
Time for the dreaded task of hanging doors! The first fun task in this process is to install the hinges… I marked out the hinge locations Then attached our handy […]
The Doors
The day of the doors arrived and it started with a bang of sawdust and never let up. First up was cutting the doors from mdf, then cutting the stile […]
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