Sunday, August 12, 2012

One down

One doorway down and one more to go.  Steve took out the doorway between our bedroom and the kitchen yesterday.  not really quite sure why it was ever there but let's just say that the builders of our home liked doors.  I think that our 2 bedroom house originally had about 14 doors.  A little excessive, don't you think?  I guess it's good for heating the house...  Currently we have (or will have once we reinstall the door to the basement stairs) 10 doors and will have 9 after we take out the extra doorway that leads to the front entry way in Ben's room.  The doors are missing to the kitchen, the upstairs, hallway and the extra in our room. 

Before....with the strange extra bedroom door


 After-temporary piece of panel in place.


Do you have any extra seemingly useless doors in you home?  How many total doors do you have?

6 comments:

  1. Thankfully, too many doors is not a problem our house had. Perhaps too many windows?? We removed some to free up wall space for cabinetry and closet space.

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  2. Door total in my house: 16, not counting closet doors. (Counting closet doors, the total is 21.) I live in an 1887 Folk Victorian, single story, with no hallways, so all the rooms connect to each other. Three of those doors are to the outside: the front door, the back door, and the door to the side porch. Originally, there were two other doors to the side porch but they were covered up years ago. I have 6 doors in my bedroom. Makes arranging furniture easy. Haha.

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    1. Wow, that is a lot of doors! And 6 in a bedroom-I hope that is a big bedroom. :) My count was off, appears that we originally had 15 doors-I forgot the one in the basement, and I didn't include the bi-fold door that we currently have in our attic because nothing up there is original. :)

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  3. We did this in our master bedroom...the door to the laundry room was one of three! What a treat to now have a solid wall in our master bedroom! Please check out our before and after photos on my blog.

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    1. wow, that looks awesome! nice work and the bead board is gorgeous!

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  4. I think the count is about 25 counting most of the closet doors (which, being an old house, are not excessive in number!). Basically there are too many to count. The house is bigger than yours but not large. There are 5 doors in the kitchen and we closed one off that was superfluous. There is really no way to eliminate the others but it does make kitchen remodel planning pretty difficult.

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