New entry doors have been on the back burner for years. Once the house was painted, they became a big sore spot and I tried to expedite their replacement. After getting a couple of ridiculous quotes from home improvement companies, I focused my search on an installer that could put in doors we purchased. I found Jay Freitag, who had great reviews. He had an opening in his schedule and squeezed us in right before we left for Baltimore.
Here is a final look at our old doors. He removed then and staged them for us to dispose of.
He did the front door on day 1 and offered great communication through the whole process. There ended up being quality issues with both doors. We got both door slabs replaced eventually, but it was a bit of a pain.
Parker was very intrigued by the activity (and still loves talking about the new doors.)
I am low-key in love with it too.
Day 2 was the back door. Like I said, there was a few issues, but the house was sealed up, which was most important.
Finishing touches began when we got back from vacation and had new slabs. I installed some new floating house numbers, a new white mailbox, and painted the existing light fixture. I capped it off with a dreamy paint color, Life of Reilly.
I installed storm doors on both as well. I realize I didn't take a picture of the back door finished, but Parker took this of Esme being her sassy self. I still plan to paint this door and the garage door the same color, but this project is done (at least the outside.)
Here is a look at the inside of our old doors, Hollow core isn't exactly the best for our climate, but it made it easy to hack up and throw in the trash.
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