Inexpensive Front Door Fixes
The front door at my previous house was, to put it bluntly, ugly as sin! It was a plain steel slab exterior door painted in a brick red color to match what else - the brick. The sidelights were very dated and the glass inside them was impossible to see through. It looked like the bottoms of pop bottles. I don’t have a picture of the outside (you know the old pre-digital camera story), but I do have a picture of the inside. Excuse the quality please - this is a scanned shot.
Replacing the entire front door system was not in the budget, so I came up with a few simple and inexpensive fixes that I could do on my own.
Budget Door Fix Number 1
Used chair rail molding to create the look of two panels on the exterior of the door.
Cost Approximately $21.00
Budget Door Fix Number 2
Primed, then painted the door and its new panels in a semi-gloss black finish.
Cost Approximately $34.00
Budget Door Fix Number 3
Removed the old pop bottle glass sections from the sidelights and replaced them with clear glass inserts.
Cost Approximately $75.00
Here’s what the front door looked like when it was all done:
For $130 I had what appeared to be a whole new front entrance door.
4 comments
Fabulous! I found this by accident, but the front-door makeover on a shoestring budget is fabulous! I would replace that doorknob with something in a brushed nickel…just a thought!
Previous house..nevermind!
What an absolutely brilliant solution!!! The black is a very sophisticated and strong color. You’ve created a beautiful focal point. Did you use black anywhere else in the space?
Thank you to Ann & Susan,
The porch railing was black iron and I’d already freshened up the rusty mailbox with a new coat of black spray paint, so black seemed like the obvious choice for the front door too. It was like the icing on the cake!
If I was still at that house I’m sure I would have eventually changed the door knob as well and brushed nickel would have been my number one choice!
Suzy
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