by Kay~Kacey on 11/18/2009
Well, we did actually get a new front door. Unfortunately, similar to the lock…we’re not having very good luck with it.
As soon as the contractor left, we noticed you could see daylight coming through at the top and bottom of the door opening. :wallbash:
So we called the contractor who said, “oh, yeah, the kit was missing some of the weather stripping thingies. I’ll get them from the door manufacturer and come back.”
It’s also a double door and the “dummy” door doesn’t fit very securely. Yes, they’ll need to fix that too.
Sigh. Did I mention I’m so not good with this remodeling stuff?
The windows in the door are beautiful though. They let so much light into our front hallway. Love that. :love:
I need to pull out my macro and take a closeup of that glass. Bet it would make a good texture overlay for photos…
There is enough character and/or wavey-ness to the glass that you can’t see inside either. Even with the lights on inside at night. I won’t tell you how we tested that theory… 😯
Now I’m in paint chip heck, trying to pick out the perfect red color to paint the door. The painter is supposed to be here the end of the week. He’s also going to paint our stairwell inside that needs scaffolding to be painted. SuperGuy just isn’t into scaffolding painting. (He’s afraid of heights!!) :secret:
Well, I’m back to staring at paint chips. . .
by Kay~Kacey on 11/17/2009
So with the new front door, we needed to get a new door lock. So….we did….
Yes, it’s going to be one of those stories…
We go to the hardware store that shall remain nameless (Home Depot) on Saturday while the contractor was putting in the new front door. We talked to the Hardware Store Helper Guy, and he talked us into a Baldwin lock. “The Best” These have a smartkey system where you can rekey them yourself whenever you want to. You know, like say…when one of the boys loses their keys and has no clue where they are… :mad2:
This is Baldwin’s prestige line. Okay. We’ll pay more for them. We have a double door, so we wanted the matching “fake” handle for the second door. The Hardware Store Helper Guy said he’d call and order that part on Monday. Fast forward to Sunday morning. SuperGuy goes to rekey the front door to an existing key we have. He messes it up. (why, oh, why do males refuse to carefully read instructions??? ) It locks up the front door lock. :wallbash:
So, SuperGuy pulls the lockset completely out of the door and takes it up to Home Depot where Hardware Store Helper Guy uses their secret-double-probation-key-redoer thingie. They set the lock to our existing keys. SuperGuy comes home and puts the lock back in the door. (He forgets the extra keys he was supposed to have made for the boys and my parents, but I digress…)
Fast forward to Monday. Hardware Store Helper Guy calls. “They don’t make a fake handle for that model you bought. You’ll have to buy another whole set $$$ and just use the handle off of it.” For real??? THEN he says, oh, and I found out the model you bought isn’t made by the Baldwin $$ well made door lock company. It’s made by Black & Decker and just marketed under Baldwin. (So we overpaid for a “good lock” which, well, isn’t one.)
So we can pull the door lock and handle and return it. Buy a new one. Get it rekeyed. Reinstall it. Or go with one door handle.
Why, oh, why is remodeling stuff always like this???
Note to my beloved sons. I did not lock you out of the house. We just need to get you new keys…you know, when we decide what we’re actually going to do about the front door lock.
by Kay~Kacey on 11/16/2009
The rain held off this weekend!! I have my new kitchen window!!
It’s beautiful, isn’t it?? :love:
It doesn’t stick out like the old, nasty garden window…so no one will smash their head anymore when they walk down the steps! :wallbash:
See my pretty view??
Okay, it was getting kind of dark. I’ll have to grab better shots when it’s nice and sunny out. I’m going to put in a cutting garden there in the garden in the lower left corner.
I didn’t get a good photo of the actual window. Too dark. You can see that SuperGuy has a job ahead of him. Replacing the tile that goes under the window sill. The trim needs to be painted too.
I’m SO glad I decided on one big old picture window. I might live at my sink from now on! I’m very happy with the results of this new portion of the Great Kitchen Remodel!
Tomorrow I’ll get photos of the new front door! Not painted red yet, but still pretty.
