Clean and Smooth

Sorry there weren't any pictures yesterday, all I did was cut off the plugs, sanded a bit, added a few pieces at the bottom of a couple doors, and put on some wood fill to help hide any of the plugs. Not really worth the pictures. Today I sanded them smooth, and put on two coats of paint to clean them up. We'll be putting on more paint later, when the trim work goes up and of course after we move in, things get bumped and a bit grubby when moving. But for now they look good, I hope you can see it in these pictures.



Looking from inside the spare room to the doorway of the
dressing room at the closet door and the walk thru door.

From in the living room to the dining room doorway.



A better look the dressing room doors.

Looking Better Every Day

All the door frames are installed, I have a little more work to do, like adding a few more screws and plugs to hide them. A couple will need spaces at the floor, I had to raise one end on them to make sure the header was level, minor stuff. All though the trim work isn't up, it is amazing how good it looks with just these few pieces in. Here a few pictures of the doors upstairs, I showed you the dining room and living room yesterday, nothing has changed with them, just that they are screwed in today.

The master bed room and dressing room doors.

The spare room.

My office.

The walk through and closet doors in the dressing room.

We've Been Framed

I took the door frames to the house today and put them together, as well I set the dining room and living room frames in place to see how they'll look, and I'm happy so far. I'll get an early start tomorrow installing them and should have better pictures then. I used the cut offs from the top pieces as an accurate spacer at the bottom, this will help during installation, hopefully keeping the frame square, at least as square as I can make it in a 100+ year old home.

A few ready to go.

The rest waiting instillation.

Living room frame, looks good.

This just completes the dining room.

Making The Door Frames

A busy day today, I cut to length & width and sanded about 164 board feet of pine for the 11 doors that are without frames. All the frames are custom cut to fit, the living room and dining room door are unique sizes, the hallway doors for the four rooms upstairs will be the same size, the closets and the walk through from the master bedroom to the dressing room are all different sizes. Tomorrow I'll put on a primer to help hide the knots and any pine resin that may show through, then paint them with a few coats of semi-gloss and then install them. After that comes the window frames and then all the window and door trim work will start.

Not much to see, but I thought I'd show you today's work.