Doors

This is one of those days that is filled with a flurry of phone calls and e-mails. Things seem like they are moving slow and then all of a sudden a lot gets done, or at least decided.

One topic of the day is the doors. I bought another door from Kerras and he dropped it off at Carter's today. This is it below. It came from the same house as the exterior door that I bought from Kerras in November, and by the style and size these came from a nice and large house, built probably 1870's or before. It is standing in Carter's front hall at the moment and he will deliver it to the house probably Monday. This door will go on the bathroom/ laundry room in the basement. Nice and wide to get a washer and dryer through. I already bought antique porcelain knobs from Kerras and hopefully a set will fit and the hardware will work.

Kerras also dropped off the other marble vanity that I will have installed in the main floor bathroom. I'm thinking I'll have Kerras build the cabinet for it. This vanity, as did the corner one for the basement bathroom, came from St. Dunstan's Basilica Bishop's Palace on Great George Street in Charlottetown.

Carter will stop by the storage unit in Montague, where all of the furniture and interior doors are stored, and pull out the doors that will be used in the basement so they are on hand when Mike starts framing down there, which will probably be in the next couple of weeks. The closet in the Parlour was removed, so that door will become the bedroom door in the basement. The wall between the front bedroom and hall was removed, so the door from that wall will be the cold storage/ wine cellar room door. The door from the kitchen to the dining room won't go back on so that door will be used on the main floor bathroom. The door that used to go from the kitchen to the pantry will become the mechanical room door, and the green tongue and groove front porch door will go back on the new front porch. Below is a picture of the doors stacked in the storage unit.

You can see the green tongue and groove door for the front porch, and the yellow one beside it was from the kitchen/ dining room doorway, that will be the new main floor bathroom door.

I will have all of the doors stripped over time and stain them all, except for the exterior doors, which will be painted glossy dark green.