I’m a barn fan. What can I say except that my grandparents had a barn, we built a barn in the midwest, and we have a barn in NH. I love barns.
So, when I visited my friend, Sue, at their newly enhanced and enlarged family home, I was amazed at her daughter’s find and the hard work involved to create these beautiful sliding doors. Are they gorgeous or what?
The doors were found at an architectural salvage company in New England covered in years of crud which was painstakingly removed by Sue’s daughter, Michelle, refinished, hung on steel hardware forged in the USA, and outfitted with original glass door knob, plate, and antique keys.
Many days of hard work were involved in cleaning, staining, and waxing these two doors, but they are beautiful, and the finish is as soft as a baby’s bottom.
This is one of those projects that due to some serious hard work will provide personal satisfaction for this family for many years to come.
Happy Thursday and may your weekend be a good one. 🎃🍁🍎
As always, this edition of Thursday Doors is linked to Norm Frampton’s
Thursday Doors – September 12, 2019.
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{swoon} This is EXACTLY what I would like!! LOVE!
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You would love these doors. I couldn’t help but run my hand along them, and I swear they truly are as soft as a baby’s bottom. They are gorgeous.
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Even from a photo I can tell they are gorgeous. She did a beautiful job. I’m not sure I would have the patience for a big project like this.
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These doors are beautiful!
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They are really a lovely addition to a lovely home.
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I’ve never seen barn door style doors with a glass door knob. How amazingly authentic is that!
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The historic door knob is a jewel all by itself. 🙂
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I am so green with envy!!! LOVE these doors and I’m in awe of the work they entailed. What a fantastic job Michelle did. If I lived in that house (Oh how I wish!), I would spend most of my time just admiring these doors! 🤗🤗
🐾Ginger 🐾
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I sat in that room and did just that – stared at their beauty and then, of course, had to get up and slide them back and forth. 🙂
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Oh wow, this glass door knob is fantastic!
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It is really beautiful.
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Yes, they are gorgeous! I so admire folks who can DIY like this.
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As they use to say, this required a lot of elbow grease. 🙂
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Wowsah! This is the second time I have used that word this morning, and all because of my blogging friends, who continue to amaze me.
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So, what room in your house would benefit from those doors? My choice would be the current opening between the family room and four-season porch. 🙂
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Beautiful as those doors are, I don’t think there’s a place for them in our house. We don’t have a porch, and the opening between the dining room and kitchen is best left open.
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Beautiful! How wonderful that someone had the energy to transform these doors and put them to good use. Recycling is rewarding.
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If only they could talk and give us a history lesson., but I guess we can imagine our own story. 🙂
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I am in love! Hard work pays off!
I have to say… these are the best sliding barn doors I have ever seen! They should be proud.
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They do look good!
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They are beautifully restored. Clearly, a lot of TLC went into the project!
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She put a lot of hours in restoring them, but it sure was worth it. 🙂
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Beautiful doors, Judy. The labor of love was worth it. 😍
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Well bravo Michelle- gorgeous work. Certainly a worthwhile project that will no doubt leave a feeling of well-earned pride and satisfaction for a job well done.
And bravo Judy for capturing and sharing them with us 🙂
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Don’t you just love the richness of the wood that she brought forward? She did do a great job. 🙂
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Doors you can see through, and with a story, no less! That’s the kind of thing that makes a home. The wood is gorgeous, and I can so easily picture you admiring and then sliding. Who could resist? A happy Thursday and a good weekend to you, too, Judy! Thanks for this Thursday beauty!
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I knew you’d understand the need to slide it, just once. 🙂
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Fabulous! Dan’s featuring barns doors today as well, but in their original place. 🙂 I would so have these in my house.
janet
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You and me both, Janet. 🙂
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YES! Beautiful! And I so admire the labor of love involved in bringing back a piece of the past from the trash heap to a place of honor in a lovely home like that. If that door could talk! – the things it has seen, both coming and going!
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It would be an entire conversation. First, it would be about how light they feel with all that crud gone, and then we’d hear all about the other families who opened and closed them. Ah, the stories they could tell us. 🙂
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Wow, they are indeed beautiful. I’d have loved to see the “before” shot with all the crud still on them. 😉 – Marty
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I didn’t think to ask her about that, but she did say they were black when she started, and I don’t mean black paint because I did ask that. 🙂
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They are gorgeous, but my favorite part is the doorknob and keys!
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The door knob was a beauty, and the antique keys came from a family member so they were both special. 🙂
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Oh my, those are beautiful and she did a wonderful job. We are considering moving to sliding doors for our bathrooms (ever since I fell). Although, maybe not glass doors 😉
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I knew you would like them as much as I did. 🙂 When we built here, we installed pocket doors in our closet and bath off our bedroom. We’ve been happy with them, but I can imagine sliding doors with handsome hardware working just as well. 🙂
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The only downside is the hooks on the back of the door are lost 🙁
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We’ve never had hooks on the back of a door so I didn’t even think of that, but it is certainly a point to consider.
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What gorgeous doors! I love the special touch of the knob and key. They are truly a work of art.
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Gorgeous doors. They look like elm.
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I loved restored wood for doors .. the whole restoration project requires so much effort … and these doors look wonderful.
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Hours of painstaking work that is for sure.
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Those doors are gorgeous. Michelle should very proud of her hard work.
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You’d love her sewing/craft room as well. 🙂
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Oh, wow, these are just absolutely wonderful, beautiful, and the stuff that dreams are made of. Seriously, I don’t think I would ever have thought of any doors this nice.
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These doors are beautiful and I love the door knob!
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Bet I’ve been to the architectural salvage company when we lived in New England. What a beautiful project…thanks for sharing as it should inspire others to not always go for something new. 🙂
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I always smile when I see folks along the NH highway putting pieces of furniture out for others to recycle, reuse, repurpose, and then before you know it they’re gone. 🙂
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I do remember that.
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Nice!
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Sliding barn door are all the rage here on Kiawah Judy. If I’d had a place for them I’d definitely have gone this way! Yes, they are gorgeous indeed.
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Wow! That’s a beauty! I love barns, too. They make me feel in touch with my Midwestern roots. I would LOVE to have a barn door, but bungalow living means doors and windows are everywhere, not so much with the wall space. I have to envy everyone else’s 🙂
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Wow, they should be proud of those doors! The hard work to clean them and refinish and hang them was worth every effort they put into that project!
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