It’s definitely a morale buster for me when we’ve got to spend days working on quick fixes rather than lasting solutions. Good thing I’m not in politics.

Another morale buster is that we were supposed to be in Vegas this weekend celebrating Steve’s birthday, but I got contagious eye infection. I’ll be kind and not post a picture.

We do have to have the house somewhat livable while we renovate.

The door to Armand’s office/future kids’ room is crooked and bowed. Witness:

See the pins holding the hinges together:

As we were pulling down the door, the back door fell off. I’m not making this up. I couldn’t – it’s too lame.

Maybe this is why:

(Can you see the painted hair hanging off of that hinge?)

Oh boy.

We were able to rehang the back door, but we needed a new door for the future kids’ room. We decided to get a solid wood door since we’ll most likely be able to repurpose a solid wood door later on when we get to renovating the interior of the house.

We figured that a solid wood door at Home Depot would be at least $100, so we decided to take a ride over to Silverlake Architectural Salvage to see what we could find.

We came up with a basic one panel solid wood door for $25 which may turn into a dining room table or the bathroom door later on. Who knows?

Look at their other goodies:

I wonder when this hot tub was made.

Saw this whilst in transit.

Paint that window.
(Note how he cuts in around the stickers. Nice.)

We got the back door hung last night and we’ll be throwing the other one up between football games today.