Some days I really feel like I’m completely unstoppable in terms of making progress on tasks. Different days, it’s all I can do to get a entrance door painted and swap out a door knob. However when a painted entrance door makes such an enormous distinction, even that small activity will be fairly thrilling! Plus, I’ve marked off two more items from my 2025 list of home goals, and that alone is fairly motivating for me. Generally it pays to get these small duties accomplished simply as a way to mark these off your record. That feeling of accomplishment in seeing these tasks being checked off of the record is usually so motivating for tackling the larger tasks.
For my workshop, I selected the identical colour for the entrance door that I’ve used on the doorways of our home — Benjamin Moore Hen of Paradise. However this time, I had it colour matched at Sherwin Williams since that’s the place I went to buy the paint for the shutters that I made for the workshop. The colour match was excellent, and this colour makes me smile each time I see it.
Let me remind you what the workshop regarded like with the brand new shutters and a plain white entrance door…
And right here it’s with the blue shutters and the brand new coral entrance door…
And the way form of the candy little stray kitty to pose for me, proper? 😀 He loves hanging round after I’m working exterior.
This colour is absolutely saturated, and as is usually the case with actually saturated colours (particularly something that’s pink or red-adjacent), it took three coats to cowl all the things. After the primary coat, it was wanting fairly streaky.
Two coats lined fairly properly on a lot of the door, however there have been nonetheless streaky areas across the home windows, so I went forward and did a 3rd coat. Three coats lined completely, and it didn’t take lengthy in any respect. The primary coat took about quarter-hour, and the 2 subsequent coats solely took about 10 minutes every.
I opted to tape off the home windows as an alternative of utilizing the paint-on window masks that you just peel off after portray (which is what I used after I painted the French doorways behind the studio). Since I wished to do that shortly, taping really went a lot sooner, and I didn’t have to attend the hour or so to attend for the paint-on masks to dry earlier than portray the door. Taping the home windows off solely took about quarter-hour.
The important thing to fast taping of home windows is to place the tape straight throughout (which you’ll see on the high left of the photograph under), after which return with a razor blade and lower the tape at an angle to take away the surplus tape. That offers you excellent corners each time.
Right here’s one other have a look at what the door regarded like after only one coat. You’ll be able to see how streaky it appears to be like even from a distance. It wasn’t fairly. 😀
I wished to place a keypad lock on the door so I can entry the workshop any time moderately than having to enter my studio and get the keys each time I wished entry to the workshop, and since this door solely has one doorknob and no deadbolt, the choices have been fairly slim. Most keypad locks are for deadbolts and never doorknobs. So I ended up going with this Honeywell digital door knob that I discovered at Lowe’s. It’s nothing fancy. It doesn’t have wifi capabilities, so there’s no app that controls it. It’s only a easy contact pad lock, which is what I wished for the workshop.
It was extremely easy to put in (it took about 5 minutes), and to date, I adore it! Programming a brand new entry code took one other 5 minutes. The directions have been very clear and simple.
In order that’s two extra tasks crossed off!
I’m glad that I had a few straightforward tasks that I may do and test off the record as a result of the following challenge — including skirting across the backside of the workshop — will not be a fast and straightforward challenge. However that’s the challenge that may take this workshop to the following degree.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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