As I type this on the living room couch on a Saturday morning, workers are cutting out the door that leads from our bedroom to the back garden and replacing it with a new door. The old door was both unattractive and falling apart, the latter due to the fact that we live five blocks from the Pacific Ocean and thus have moist salty air pretty much every day (especially at night). Last week they replaced four windows, including one which I had removed and boarded up six years ago.
This kind of renovation is odd, in that you have tons of decisions to make about the windows and doors before they get made, but the actual process of getting them in place is pretty quick. Admittedly, the painting and finishing aren't done yet (too damp to paint today) and the house is a huge mess, but, you know, there is a window. It's sort of like writing software; often the main point of the software is done pretty fast.
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Hope you kept the spirit of the original architecture in tact while still making it practical. That is a nicely designed house!
Indeed, we made it more consistent, I think. The size of the windows and doors is exactly the same (we didn't want to do any permit pulls), and we added the square-frame-with-slight-overhang framing to the back door. It looks so nice we were kind of disappointed to put the drapes back over it today.
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