Revisiting something mentioned in an earlier post and providing a bit more detail…
Most of the doors here are sliding glass ones, but when we first moved in we had a small collection of “normal” doors leading into and out of the house and the studio building. When we renovated the studio building, we removed the weird swing door; before that, we had the French doors in that building reframed with a metal bottom when dealing with the first round of dry-rot issues. While not great (they have some gap issues along the bottom), the front doors aren’t something we’re about to change anytime soon, but the swing door in the kitchen was another matter. It didn’t seal well, and in strong winds would blow open if not latched, and even when latched the wind still came through the gap between the frame and door. New weatherstripping didn’t alleviate the issue.
When we first moved in, it had the existing lock which required a key and that was annoying, so we had a locksmith replace that with a simple deadbolt. That solved the blowing open issue, but the chilly air still seeped in. So after we had the house repainted, which included repairing/replacing the siding along the southeast corner of the house, we made the decision to just seal up the door. Sure, we could have gotten a contractor in, had the door and frame pulled out and perhaps a simple window put where the door once was, but that seemed like overkill considering all the other projects we’d like to get done.
Here’s a shot of the door today. We’re still on the fence about the door closer attached to the top of the door: do we remove it or let it stay? We could hang something from it….
Oh and the series of key chains decorating the wee space between the doors, well…that is a story for another time.
