Good things come to those who wait, correct? Well, this part 2 post has been almost a year in the making! But, the actual project has been much closer to 3 years… Years before Joanna Gaines became a household name, I fell in love with antique doors. Doors and windows dominate the pictures of my trips to other countries like Spain, Germany, France, and Ireland. Old doors have always fascinated me, so when IronFish and I first started talking about how awesome it would be to incorporate antique doors into our new home, even before we started looking for the new home… I knew we needed to do it. Just shy of a year ago, I shared how we had found and stripped 4 amazing doors from an 1800s church. Today I’ll show you how we hung those doors both as French and barn doors.
Before
Here’s what two of the doors looked like when we found them:
Through a lot of late nights and long weekends in the garage, we stripped the grease, paint, and bubbly finish off the doors.
Then the doors had to wait for our kitchen renovation. Because, well, food…
Barn Doors
I’m not sure barn doors were on IronFish’s initial thought for hanging the antique doors. But, given the placement of the pair of doors and the space it would impede as swinging doors, I got the barn doors I wanted.
Before staining, we installed all the trim and the barn door track. I worked on the trim installation and painting while IronFish stained. We had new glass cut for all the windows since the old glass either had paint, was missing or broken, or was textured. I wanted the light to flow through and IronFish to be able to see what is going on in the house if necessary while working.
From the kitchen, we only see part of the doors:
And I really love the doors from the inside:
They don’t block the sound completely but dampen it enough and visually let the kids know dad is working.
French Doors
The other pair of doors we converted to French doors for the entry from the front door of the house.
Because of the “little hallway” which is created by a coat closet on either side, the doors tuck against the wall when open.
Craftsman style doors are throughout the house. Converting the mismatch doors was one of the first projects we did in this house. Several different styles of doors look like a hodgepodge. Antique doors on one room make it a unique feature.
While we did all of the work ourselves, I can’t really tell you exactly how to do this yourself. The charm of old doors is they were all made custom, no stock or standard doors. Hanging the doors on the barn door track was by far the easier way to install doors.
Fixer Upper Style Antique and Barn Doors
Would you hang antique doors in your house?
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