The door is fixed! (and the hole is temporarily)

Derek stayed home from church on Sunday to tackle these two important tasks that our neighbor, Gerry was so nice to help us out with. I wasn't there for the majority of the work but I can show you the finished products. They tackled the door first. As we are learning with most projects around the house (around our house at least) is that they are always more complicated than you would hope. Last Saturday when Derek was able to get the door re-hung but then it wouldn't fit we figured that we'd just have to saw down the door some to make it fit. Well, Gerry determined that the frame was so out of whack it would be best to replace the frame with a new door already hung inside. That was the plan. Gerry went to Lowe's to get the supplies.

Here's the finished product. We now have a door that actually shuts and is hung where it opens into the bedroom, rather than the bathroom to give us more room when trying to use the bathroom sink, etc...

All that is left is the painting of the door and touching up the trim that we had to pry off to re-hang the door. Another complication I was told is that the new door didn't fit properly in the hole because a previous owner had put sheet rock up over wood paneling inside the bathroom rather than removing the wood paneling. Basically this left the opening for the door too thick for the new door to fit properly. Luckily Gerry had a solution for this that didn't require renovating the whole bathroom!

After the much longer than expected door project, it didn't leave much time for the closet. We decided on a temporary patch. The above pictures shows the top shelf in our closet with a small piece of sheet rock screwed into the ceiling. The plan is to eventually take everything out of the closet, scrape the popcorn ceiling off and then properly fix it. This project will have to wait until 2011, but hopefully before Maverick comes.....otherwise it might never happen :)