Eureka's Victorian houses have a unique front door style that probably grew out of the isolated nature of the area, the ready supply of redwood and the craftsmen of the area. As you look around Eureka you see great original doors everywhere. I walked around my street with my camera to record of few of the doors. They are mostly half glass single doors with added details like the sun-burst pattern. not all door are in great shape, but even the shabby one show the original styles.
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| Our Front Door with George's Ramp |
My job is to now find something for our house that will match the new porch - our current door is brutally ugly (see on the right) and must go! I'm looking for ideas about a new door. I've searched the thousands of used doors at Urban Ore in Berkeley but found nothing in the right size that works. Despite the wealth of doors in Eureka we have not had any luck with craiglist or salvage in Humboldt County. If you've got any ideas, or a nice 34' door let me know.
Good luck with the door - 34 inches is nearly an impossible task to find! My house here in PA originally had a 34 inch from door, which the owners I bought it from built in the frame and remplaced with a slab 32 inch door (just like yours, only it had a 5 inch window, not centered.) Certainly didn't go with the flavor of the 1910 house. At one point I was going to rip out the framing they added, but then I came across a 32 inch door that had the same pattern as the single window on our third floor dormer. a little reworking and redoing of the new/old door, and for 30 bucks we've got an original door that looks like it should always have been there.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a lot of those doors you took pics of should have plenty enough wood on either side of the glass to take a 36 inch door (much more common) and skim an inch off either side to make your 34" door. Just a thought!
Ah, Urban Ore....where *everything* reeks of cat pee.
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