Two doors and a window.

We are taking a home improvement break this weekend.  While everyone else was enjoying Memorial Day cookouts last weekend, we were installing a window and two French doors.

Dad installed the window on Saturday while Patrick and I went up to Ikea.  It looks fantastic and really opens up the den.

Window!  I still need to paint the trim.

 The French doors were supposed to be quick and easy.  Much to the dismay of the delivery guys who brought them to our house over a week ago, they had to haul them into our backyard.  Heavy doesn't even begin to describe them.  We were replacing the sliding door in the dining room and the remaining sliding door in the den.  Once those doors were removed, it was apparent that the openings were an odd size.  Luckily Dad knows about these things and got them to fit.

However, after removing the sliding door in the den we discovered rotted wood.  We knew the roof above near the chimney had been patched before our home inspection.  It obviously had been leaking for a long time and even now we don't know the extent of water damage around the chimney.

Rotted wood.  No good!

The rotted wood was removed and multiple trips to Lowe's had to be made in order to frame the door.  After having a panic attack about how bad the roof actually is, I headed to Mom's house since we were down to 2.5 (Finn being the .5) for our Memorial Day weekend cookout.  I brought food back over to Dad and Patrick who were still working on the door and seeing as how I was of no help, went back over to Mom's.  By 9:30pm there was still no word about the door so I headed back over to the house with a sense of dread.  The door was in, but still didn't fit quite right.  When it had to be taken back out at 10pm I knew we officially hit DEFCON 1.  Everyone called it quits around 11pm, went home to sleep, and Dad came back on Memorial Day to finish it up.  He channeled Norm and got it done.  Both doors look fanastically better than the sliding glass doors and will officially be finished when I paint them.  Who knew French doors didn't already come painted?  That was news to me.

Dining Room Before

Dining Room After

Living Room Before

Living Room After (ignore the mess)

The pictures I took with my phone are pretty terrible, but you get the idea.  It definitely looks better!  And you can see why everyone needs a weekend off.  Next up are installing doors since we removed all the dark wood doors that came with the house.  Only Finn's room has a new door and I'll be working on painting them this week.