The old beveled glass is beautiful in and of itself! And it lets so much light into an area of the kitchen that was once dark! We also removed the piece of wood that was on the outside of the transom window and scraped the paint of the inside.

The Finished New Old Farmhouse Front DoorĪnd here she is in all her natural glory! I finished it with the same clear Miss Mustard Seed wax I used on the storm door and I just LOVE how it turned out! It also locks with a skeleton key which we think is pretty awesome! 😉 The new hardware we chose has a close resemblance to the original. But Ed did an amazing job! You wouldn’t know they weren’t just part of the door! It was delicate work removing the knots, one for the outside and one for the inside of the door. But when the time came I suggested we try filling it with a knot from another piece of wood and it worked awesome! At first we thought about wood putty and found a really good match. This meant coming up with a solution to fill these little holes. Since we already knew by looking at the matching door in our living room that the more decorative molding faced outward we wanted to keep that the same. Interestingly there were holes for different types of hardware on both sides of the door. I also used a toothpick to get it out of the tiny grooves.Īfter getting the door stripped (after 27 coats) and glued back together, the next issue was switching the hardware. It still door several coats of stripper and a hand sander to get the frame of the door stripped.Īfter switching to the stripper pictured and linked above we discovered details on the exterior moldings around the glass that you couldn’t see before because there were so many layers of paint! I was SO excited! We had to use a wire brush to gently remove the paint in these intricate areas. The door had to be cut down a bit to fit the new opening and we wanted to strengthen some weak places with wood conditioner and then wood glue when we put it back together. Once the weather got nice we took the door outside and took it apart.

So I decided to wait for warmer days and get a more powerful stripper. There were just too many layers of tough old paint and I wasn’t getting anywhere fast. At first I tried Citristrip because it was still winter and I was doing int inside. The door pictured below is the one in our living room and is an exact match to the door we found in the barn and hung as our new old front door!Īfter finding this door I decided to paint the storm door and strip this one back to a raw natural wood. This is fine with me because I’ll be ripping up this flooring soon anyway 😉 Shew! I hope that made sense! If not it will once we replace the original front porch! But when someone added the new wood flooring they didn’t cut the door down to allow it to open. The second door leads into what used to be the dining room and is now our living room. The porch has since been removed or fallen down (we’ll be rebuilding it!) and 1 of the front doors that would have led to the original sitting room (living room) was taken off and covered when the bathroom was relocated. And there were 2 original front doors off a porch on that side of the house. So now it’s basically a dead end road except for farmers.īut 120+ years ago the house was built to face that road. Our house is actually at the end of a paved road that turns into a dirt road at our house. The driveway runs right along this side of the house so it makes the most sense as the “front door”. So the door that we use as our front door leads from a little front porch on the side of the house into the kitchen. If you read the previous article about our new old storm door then you already know we actually found this old new door in the barn! But not only did we find it in the barn, it’s also an original front door to the farmhouse! It’s a bit confusing to explain but I’ll try. This helps to support my blog, so thank you SO much!* If you click on these links and purchase something, I make a commission at no additional cost to you.

This is an article that I’ve been SO excited to finally write and even more excited for you to see! It’s all about refinishing our old new farmhouse front door!īelow is a picture of the door that was here when we moved in and the one we replaced aka the “before door”. Refinishing Our New Old Farmhouse Front Door

Farmhouse front door