The front door story -- We searched Eureka and beyond thinking we could find a replacement door similar to all the lovely Victorian doors we see around town. In the end, short of a custom made door, we decided to work with a local door supplier and come up with a new door from Simpson Door Company. The people over at Forbusco Lumber in Fortuna - and Eric Negrete put to door together and did the installation. It's always a challenge working around an old door sill.
While it's not a traditional Eureka styled door we were able to order one that matched many of the 5 panel doors that are inside the house. We have a half glass with the nine panels of varying sizes combines with the bottom half matching the 5 panel look. The door was outfitted with new hardware from Nostalgic Warehouse; here is the Victorian Plate with Victorian Knob.We ordered the door primed and we now needed to pick some colors for paint.
To recap, we started with the porch and door, as always happens, once the porch was replaced then to front door looked especially bad. Once we ordered a new door it was primed at the factory and installed with a new frame to replace a hundred years of paint and abuse.
Our next job was pick some Victorian door colors and paint it up. Thee coats of paint latter the door is now done (we still have the masking on the windows, waiting for a curtain).