I still don’t have any exciting progress to share with you on the bedroom suite. I bought all of the trim for the walls (crown molding, chair rail, baseboards, and molding for the picture frame wainscoting), so I hope to get started on that today and have some progress to share with you Monday. I had hoped to have that started already, but the door installation and drywall repair took longer than I had anticipated.
So in the meantime, I’ve been thinking (again) about how I want to finish out the exterior door area on the bedroom. And once again, I went to ChatGPT to help me out.
Last time, I had some pretty good success with using ChatGPT. That was long before the door was even installed, and after giving it some very detailed prompts, it ended up creating this picture for me.
That helped me confirm that I did want a door there, and that I could work with it and make it pretty and presentable. But there were so many things wrong with it. There’s no way we could have such a huge stepdown from the door to the landing like that. And I don’t want concrete steps, either. I want the steps on this door to match the look of the front porch with stained cedar boards and white risers on the steps.
So now that we have the door installed (but still not painted), I went back to ChatGPT and uploaded this photo. This photo was taken this morning after the tree was trimmed, and you can see that I did lose the camouflage that those branches were giving to this door. So now, the door is very visible.
I gave very detailed instructions about the steps, and they turned out pretty good. But what the heck is that pergola? 🤣🤣 I mean, that’s a DIY special if I’ve ever seen one!
I tried to get it to make a smaller, understated pergola that fit the space better, but it was determined to keep that one huge board running parallel with the door. I mean, that’s the craziest pergola I’ve ever seen.
But then I decided to try shutters. I’m not sure what I think about shutters on an exterior door, but it would make the door blend in more with the windows on the exterior of the house that are white with blue shutters. And I do plan to keep this door white so that it blends in with the windows.
I don’t know why it kept degrading my original picture with each new edit, but it did. So you really have to use your imagination here. And it also degraded the look of the steps, which is weird. But I went with it, and had it keep the shutters and add some landscaping around the steps so that I could get an idea of what the finished area might look like with shutters and landscaping.
I actually like it! I might even like the shutters better than I liked the pergola idea. But you can let me know what you think. Is it weird to put shutters on an exterior door? I know it’s not unheard of because I went to Pinterest and saw plenty of examples, but none were quite like my door. They were generally on houses that were much grander than mine, or they were a completely different style than mine.
But I think I like the idea. Since I’m keeping the door white so that it blends in with the white windows on the house, I think it might be nice to add the shutters as well to keep it consistent with the white windows that have dark blue shutters. But tell me what you think about shutters on an exterior door. Is it weird? Or do you think it would look nice and keep the door consistent with the windows?
Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.
