Well, 2020 has been quite odd as we all know with Corona virus causing so many problems. For me it meant I have been largely working from home most of the year, with some days spent in the office/lab from time to time. My main goal this year with the house was to finish off the doors on the main level. There were 6 left to go on the main floor. I have previously finished and installed 6 doors, over the span of a few years. The total for the entire house is 24 doors, so with the 6 done this year, I have reached the halfway point.
I started with the 2 doors in the entry area - the office and the coat closet, and then trimmed out the main front door at the same time. Here is a shot of the entry way area with those doors completed. On the far lower right you can see a sliver of the trim for the powder room door, which was previously done. With these, the entry way is now basically complete, other than the baseboard trim.
Next up was the door to the toilet closet in the Master Bath, then the door to the Master Bedroom - which is different than the double doors to the Master Suite as it closes off only the bedroom itself, not the whole suite. Then it wrapped up with the linen closet door in the Master Bath and finally the pocket door for the laundry room. I also had one doorway in the Master suite hallway going back to the laundry room and Master Closet which is just a door frame trimmed out, with no door. This work took from Mid-May all the way up to Dec 27 to wrap up. With everything else going on in life, it takes roughly a month to make a door, install it and trim it out, so this does not go fast and sometimes other things get in the way and I make no door progress for a couple weeks or more.
Here are some photos of (most of) the rest of the main floor doors in the master suite:
This one is looking down the main master suite hallway, through the double doors. Master BR first door on left, Master Bath 2nd door on left, then the open doorway with the laundry room door barely visible just past it on the left:
Looking from the other end of the hall. Laundry just visible on the right, followed by Master Bath, Master BR and the double doors barely visible at the far end. Looking through the open master bath door, you can see the linen closet door:
Master bath 1st on left, open doorway and laundry door open on left:
And then finally the pocket door to the laundry room, shown mostly closed:
Next up I am going to build a desk for the upstairs library area to make that a bit more usable as a study/work area, and then I have enough wood left to make probably 2 more doors in the lower level for the guest bedroom and the utility room. I'd like those 2 to be from the same batch of wood as the guest bathroom (the very first door) as these 3 are all right next to each other, so I want them to look very close to each other. By the time this is all done, that will probably bring me into Feb or early March.
After that I need to figure out a good source for more wood as there will still be 10 doors remaining to make. And of course I still need to trim out windows and do baseboards. And there are still outside projects that need to be tackled sometime too. It never ends... But main floor doors are now done!
