Since the front door is one of the first things you see when you visit someone's home, I figured it was fitting that my first entry should be about mine!
After several years of unemployment and living with family,
my little family has finally moved into our own (rented) home. We're very excited! We've been cleaning and organizing for a few weeks now - with lots more to do - but I decided to take a couple evenings to do something to make the house "ours". With the landlord's blessing (we have an awesome landlord - we can do pretty much whatever we want as long as it's not permanently damaging to the property), I painted the front door.
Why the front door? I have always dreamed of having a house with a colorful front door. Odd, maybe, but there you go. Red is nice, and so is blue, but lately I've been lusting after beautiful deep green doors. So I picked up a quart of exterior paint from Sherwin Wiliams and headed home to begin the transformation.
Our original door is steel, and was painted a grungy white. Even trying to clean it, it still looked icky. Since replacing it was out of the question (and budget), I figured paint was just the thing to give it a face-lift. I don't have a really good before photo, but here's the best I could find, though it doesn't really convey how grubby it looked. But added bonus: my little guy "hiding" behind the screen door.
