choices...

This weekend was a bit slower...  We did smaller projects that had to be done, but don't really show a lot of change...

Oh except for this...

Insulation added to a kitchen wall.. Drywall was finished also, but I don't seem to have taken a photo of it done...oh, well by now...everyone knows what drywall looks like..

Header removed from doorway in kitchen (to laundry room) The header was too low to add a door.

a new header and door installed

and a door installed to the basement...

and a new thermometer added to the wall outside the kitchen window.

We had some choices to make this weekend...  Before I got there on Saturday afternoon, Rich had gone to Lowes and purchased both the doors...  When you buy doors you have to pick "right hand opening" or "left hand opening"... and I had never noticed that doors have a front and a back.   If you get up and go look at a bedroom (or other) door you will notice that the door opens into the room. Which means the hinges are not seen as they are hidden behind the door after it is opened.  The frame is also not centered.  The door actually sets into the room you are entering... And the doors are installed from the back.


The basement door was a bit tricky as one of us (not me!) had to stand on the steps as it was set in, leveled and nailed in.  Then the front piece was added and voila it is finished with a basic brushed nickel lock set..  With the wall and the door the house is completely closed off from the basement now.  It's wonderful...and it even feels better as we aren't attempting to heat the basement..


The basement door opens to the right and into the stairs...makes it a bit tricky to close, but since we won't be going into the basement everyday it's not a big deal.

However...the other door was a bit of a compromise...  This door leads from the kitchen into the laundry room and the long hall to eventually the sewing room...  One the other side of this door the washer and dryer will sit to the left (as you are looking into the room).  On the right is a narrow hallway that leads to the sewing room...

Rich bought a door that opens up to the left.  When he told me that, I wasn't too sure... Here are my concerns...

1. to use the washer I will have to open the door, walk in and shut the door.

well, ok...only one concern, but it's a big one.

BUT let's explore what happens when I use a right hand door.  I open the door and then have to close the door to walk down the hall and to the sewing room.  hm...Also I have two large storage closets down that hallway that I am planning to use as overflow for all the kitchen stuff...

I hope I am doing more sewing than laundry...so even though I wasn't sure about that left hand door...I decided that he really had made the right decision..

Now that it is getting colder the kitties have started coming to the back door more often and asking to come in.   They can get pretty persuasive...

in the kitchen window...

please let us in....

and then because they still didn't get in... one of the cats decided to "work it"... 

"squeamish alert"




that's Oliver growling...
See ya next week..
Nancy