Tanner's Door

Like a herd of turtles, we are accomplishing smaller scale, but equally important aspects of our home this summer.  Some of our delay in progress this summer has been due to Tanner's traveling for work, and my joining him for a bit of vacation and visiting family.  Since we would be leaving our homestead for a couple of weeks, Tanner was anxious to have all doors complete in the house in order to secure tools inside.   Our first floor door at the front of the house was to be a shop door, large enough to pull a car into, but not to store vehicles regularly.  Tanner envisioned a barn-style door, and set to work building it.

 

 The core of the door consists of foam board, sandwiched by two pieces of plywood, with holes cut for windows, and cedar trimming the exterior side of each door.

Meanwhile, I stained the door frame, for ease of not doing so around the new door.  We have yet to decide how we want the completed door stained, but we've got time to figure that out.

The doors fit perfectly into the frame

 

Nice and clean appearance on the inside

 The hardware finished the door quite nicely.  Not knowing exactly what Tanner's vision was for the finished door, I am rather delighted in how the finished product looks.  Eventually, Tanner will build custom doors to replace our insulated metal ones that are getting us by in the meantime.  I know I won't be disappointed in those doors either.

I am loving the way the new doors look amongst the rest of our house.  It is becoming quite striking, if I do say so myself! 
Cheers!