Interior Greenhouse Door

For some reason, we’ve always ended up replacing doors and windows during winter. I reckon it’s because the season is slower, so there’s more time for bigger jobs like that. The interior door for the greenhouse was no exception. Happily, we got a string of mild days while Dan tore out one of the windows my sewing room and replaced it with a door. 

We discussed door placement options on this wall of windows: the middle window, perhaps? Or maybe the one on the end?

Considering how the room is set up, this end window near the exterior greenhouse door made the most sense. In the photo below, the new door will replace the window on the left, next to the old, obsolete chimney flue.

This will make it a straight shot from the living room, through my office, and then to the greenhouse. We haven’t finished the walls in this end of the room, anticipating the installation of the door.

Dan had the usual challenges of updating a 100-year-old-house, such as different size building materials (for example, 2x4s were larger back then) and puzzling DIY construction techniques.

That’s been the challenge with everything we’ve done! But Dan always manages and got the door opening framed out in no time.

Then the leveling, squaring, shimming, and securing. Here’s his progress so far.

Next will be insulating the gaps and then putting up and painting the trims. And, of course, building some stairs.