The Bedroom Door Is In!

Our bedroom now has an exterior door, and I love it…kind of. This wall is on the front of our house, and it used to have a window that looked like this…

And the last time I showed it to you, it looked like this. They had done some preliminary work that included rerouting electrical wires so that they would clear the area where the door needed to go.

I’m so glad to have this door in here. I’ll sleep much better with the peace of mind knowing that I can get Matt out of the room quickly and easily in case of emergency. That peace of mind is worth much more than what we’re paying to have this door installed.

I can’t wait to see it all trimmed out on the interior, and then to see it “framed” with the teal draperies. I think it’s going to be so pretty.

Once again, I’m debating what to do about privacy on the door. I’ll definitely need to add something for privacy since the door is on the front of the house. I haven’t settled on a decision yet, but I have some ideas.

So while I’m thrilled with how it looks on the inside, what I’m not thrilled with is the outside. And the issue isn’t even that we now have to doors on the front of our house. Since this one is way over on the far left side of the house, I’m really not bothered by having two doors on the front. But what does bother me is how unlevel the house is. For some reason, it’s not too terribly noticeable on the inside, but it’s very noticeable on the outside.

This section of the house is lower in this corner where these two sections meet. It’s been like this since we bought the house, so it’s not sinking. The house settled long before we bought the house. It would have cost a fortune to fix it, and even fixing it would have led to lots of other problems, so we decided to leave it alone. Since it’s not continuing to settle, it’s best to just leave it alone rather than try to fix it and lead to other problems that would need to be fixed.

But it’s very obvious, at least to my eye. And having a level door inside an unlevel section of the exterior wall makes it even more obvious.

But all we can do is just press forward and hope that once everything is trimmed out and painted, and once the porch area is built (which will be level with the door), it won’t be quite so obvious.

Dealing with an old house where things are never perfectly level and plumb has been one of the biggest challenges for me. I’m a perfectionist, and these things used to really bother me.

I mean, I’d lose sleep over it during a project where I was having to deal with how to work around these issues and make adjustments to disguise the issues. But after 12 years, I’m kind of used to it. I still get disappointed when the issues are obvious to my eye, but there’s nothing I can do about it, so I don’t lose sleep over it anymore. I just try to make the best of it and move on.

But overall, even with the imperfections, I’m so excited to have this door installed. I think once it’s all finished, it’s going to look great. And that peace of mind that I feel having a door in our bedroom is priceless.