All I wanted for Christmas was my French doors…
And I’m spoiled rotten. The doors were installed the day after Christmas and I love the transformation from having them on sawhorses in the middle of the dining room awaiting another coat of varnish. Thank you to Nick and his dad for spending a day of their vacation installing the doors and hardware- I love them!
Not only did I get the French doors installed for Christmas, but Nick got me a claw foot tub. I had pretty much written off putting in a claw foot tub upstairs when we had the discussion of how to get it up the 40 stairs to the house and then up the staircase we refinished without damaging the stairwell or someone’s back. I had an idea that my present was related to the house because Nick had asked if that was okay, but I didn’t expect a tub. He found a beautiful old tub at Second Use, our favorite salvage yard. As I type, he is in the shop using the grinder to sand down the outside so he can paint it. The porcelain is in pretty good shape so we are going to hold off on having that resurfaced. So our upstairs bath that has been gutted and re-plumbed will have a toilet, sink and tub in the near future. We are not doing a complete remodel at this time because we have this small project of finishing the main floor. So Nick picked up a remnant of linoleum and we will wire for an outlet, insulate and drywall, but I don’t think we’ll paint the walls until we do a full remodel.
Back to the French doors. Here are a few pictures of the wall going down and the doors themselves. Now it’s time to work on the backyard so the view is a bit nicer when we sit at the table!
It’s been a great week!
2 Comments
Kristin·December 28, 2005
Those doors are lovely! And congrats on the tub. Our tub has been sitting in the shed for several months, waiting for us to tackle sanding the outside of it.
Nick·December 28, 2005
Kristin - If your tub is a leg-tub like ours, and you want to remove the old paint from the outside, I have some recommendations.
I used an angle grinder with a wire-brush “cup” attachement. This worked great with ours, but there wasn’t a whole heck of a lot of paint to remove.
For the feet I used chemical stripper. If the tub had more paint on it, I would have used it there too. What would work great would be to coat the outside of the tub with stripper, and drape it with a plastic bag. Leave it for a couple of hours, and come back with a putty knife.
Good luck with yours!