New Interior Doors

Our door project consisted of 10 new blank doors. We had to measure and cut all doors to fit in our not so straight openings.

After cutting the door to size we took it to the opening to make sure it fit. Holding it there we marked the hinge position and the notching began. We used a chisel and mallet and very slowly we started whittling the side of the door. This was a very slow and tedious process! 30 notches later...we were done!

We had a drill attachment for the 2 holes in the door.

Sanding indoors is not recommended! After cleaning the mess, we decided this was the only one we would be doing this way. For the other doors we actually removed the door molding, took it outside, sanded, primed, and painted it. A lot of work but it made a big difference.

                                                                                                                                                                     this is where we removed the molding and took it outside to be sanded. 

left side is not sanded...right side is sanded...you have to enlarge the pic to see the difference

This was our assembly line for door painting. Each door had to be painted twice on each side...then they were finally ready to install. Since we removed the old doors and got rid of them before we were actually finished with the new ones, we had sheets hanging as our doors...even the bathroom...the kids didn't appreciate that too much :)

                                    

                                    

                                                  

We are finally finished! This seemed like such a long process...probably because it was, but it was all worth it