Old doors...

Every day there's more progress, and today, the garage is done. I love our new colors:  gray on the body, dark gray in the gable ends, white trim, and all the fancy molding is darkest charcoal.



This old beveled glass door leads to a small apartment at the end of the garage, leading onto the patio. I love how it turned out, and we'll have all the doors painted this color. Except for the front door. The antique mortise lock hardware will stay, but we're replacing the rest of the door hardware with new matte black knobs and locks. (The old brass light fixtures will go, too... maybe this fall.)

This beautiful door was here when we bought our little farm, but I think it's the original front door to the house, replaced back in the late 1960's in a misguided effort to modernize. We thought about putting it back in place as the front door, but in the end, decided to leave it be.



Our painter drove in this morning with an idea:  he thinks the front of the garage, which faces the private road, looks too plain. He painted the trim around the door frame in our dark charcoal, but it wasn't enough. So he suggested painting all the door molding in our dark gray. We weren't sure, so he painted one row. Then another, saying if we don't like it, he'll change it back. But when it was done, we both loved it.