Read the sequence from the top before cutting, painting, or moving pieces.
Best Handmade Door Tips
Before we finish up Shut The Front Door Handmade Week — we need to cover installing, framing, and door casings! Here are our best Handmade door tips and options to get you going on beautifying and updating your doors:
Installing Doors + Hardware
Beginning with the basics: how to paint a paneled door from Ugly Duckling House
and Live Love Handmade will teach you how to paint the door and NOT the hinges
while Magenta and Lime has plenty of tips for painting door hardware
or you can go the new route and install new door knobs and/or hinges — details at Young House Love.
Prefer an aged look? How to age brass doorknobs via Bekob.
And if your door is older or if you build a heavier door — you’ll need to upgrade your hinges! Learn how from Wilker Do’s.
We shared a lot of barn doors, but if you aren’t into the exposed hardware, you can installing a pocket door – walkthrough here.
Update the look of your home by replacing an interior door, with detailed info from Do It Yourself Design
Give a glass door some privacy with an straightforward Handmade from direct Southern Charm
Learn how to widen a doorway with Ron Hazelton
Turn bifold doors into French doors with a direct method from Wife in Progress on Bekob
Make a door into a swinging door via Curtain Queen Creates
Exterior doors need love, too! Follow along with installing a new exterior door at Our Home Notebook
and learn to install new exterior door trim from Annabode
And what about showers? Head to Ciburbanity to see how to install a new shower door.
Next page: door frames and casing –>
Door Frames and Casing
Door trim is a lot the same option as window trim, but if you need some more pointers, this is a great informative Handmade door trim walkthrough from Dream Book Design
and Thrifty Decor Chick will show you how to install craftsman door trim
Or look at Sawdust Girl for tips for bulking up existing door trim.
Add some height with extra trim above the door, vivid! over at Tidbits from the Tremaynes.
Or go faux and paint it — a fun turquoise maybe? via Live Breathe Decor
I love the extra style that Diane from In My Own Style gave her doorway with this faux transom window — for around $10!
Door frame opening without a door? Install door casing to dress it up! Learn the basics from The Charming Nest
and our interior column plans + walkthrough here
And I love the style of these two door casings, too!
The Sunny Side Up Blog
Driven By Decor
IN THIS POST
page 1: Handmade door installation and hardware tips
page 2: door casing and trim
