Posts tagged ‘front door’
- So the delivery guys will actually know what the number is on our house on September 24th, 2012
A staple of DC rowhomes (as well as most rowhomes from the same period elsewhere) is the tradition of hand-painted house numbers in the transom over the front door. A tradition which has sadly been replaced in most “flipped” homes around here with the fine tradition of whatever crappy numbers Home Depot sells nailed to [...]
- Bringing old brass back to life on March 17th, 2011
This project was all Rachel. For the cost of a small bottle of brass polish from Home Depot that our neighbors picked up for us, Rachel turned our two old mail slots into two brand new old mail slots. Each door has a mail slot, but they don’t line up, so our mail ends up [...]
- Paint the world red on February 24th, 2011
Rachel and I have both wanted a red door on the house we’d own one day. Our family, for some reason that will probably get explained in the comments, has always had red front doors on our houses. Atlanta, Columbia, Thomson (I think) all had red doors. Maybe it was because we were Jewish and [...]
