Doors
One of the things that reflects quality and substance are doors, whether on a device, a car or a building. It is a part you touch, the thing you personally interact with. I remember shopping for my first boom-box when I had my own room in college. It was really important to me that the cassette tape compartment was solid and well designed- a soundless slow glide, not a plastic-y clack slap. I wouldn’t have know how to explain why at the time, but it makes sense to me, looking back.

When we built the apartment, we spent time looking for and found interesting doors to reuse. It was unappealing to buy flimsy pre-hung doors and put them along side the steel fire doors in this building. High quality new doors are amazing but out of our budget. We also think something shiny new wouldn’t blend with the surroundings. We like patina. It tells a story.


We’ve been gathering doors for a while and we have almost all we need for the next phase. We need quite a few doors for upstairs and the volume of the space is larger than the apartment. We needed to find doors that fit the scale, as well as the substance of the space. We’ve been shopping at our usual places, and a newer place. We’ve also been ‘shopping’ in the building, hoping to relocate doors that are already here.
We posted about these doors, that came out of a school. We’ve measured and tagged each door.














We have hardware- hinges and handles- for most of what we plan to use but are short a few hinges. We need a couple more doors for closets, too. Regan’s Junque’ store and ReFab have many options to chose from. But if find something interesting out there, we’ll figure out a way to incorporate it, or swap out a door we have that needs work.
Tom & Sue – “…we are short a few hinges” is what people have always said about me.
You still have all your knobs, right?