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1930’s Doors Finished

Awhile back we found these amazing 1930’s doors at a garage sale for only $5 a door. We knew they needed some serious love to be brought back, and we did just that. We gave y’all a tutorial on how to strip and sand them, and then we went and painted them and beautiful crisp white! It completely slipped my brain that I never posted some pictures of them up in the house. So without further ado, here is the progress the doors have made:

what we started with
after striping and sanding, so pretty right?

 Here is a door all finished! I love the character they add from our previous doors, and that they have so much history!

The door plates the doors came with are by far my favorite! The handles are from Anthropoloige on sale for $8 a piece {considering they were like $24 ea to begin with we were happy with the price}. We used these same handles on our old doors, but man oh man- they look worlds better on these.

Its pretty amazing to me how smooth we got them to come out. There were so many cracks, rough edges, etc. when we got them. We left a little un-even texture to them, as to not take away all history, but they look amazing! I had a reader that was thinking about staining hers, and that would be amazing as well! We went with the white because it flows with our house better. Hope you guys like them!

<3,
Adri

Comments

  1. Miss W says

    LOVE the door knobs! The doors look fabulous!!!

    I didn’t realize before but I have the same door as a headboard for my bed. Hung on the wall horizontally with crown moulding at the top.

  5. Ashton says

    They turned out so good! I love the anthro knobs with the original metal door plates. Thanks so much for posting this! I’m still working on stripping my doors down (it’s a grueling process :-/) but as soon as they are done I’ll send you a pic of the finished product.

  7. adrianne says

    Miss w-we might use one of them as a headboard as well:)
    Ashton- slow and steady wins the race!!! You’ll be so happy when your finished!

    Thanks everyone!! Glad yall like them

    <3,
    adri

  9. Sarah says

    These doors turned out great!! All that elbow grease definitely paid off. We’ve got these doors all over our house. We even discovered a few up in the attic once we moved in!! Score!!

    Love your blog!! Discovered it from Kristen over at 6th Street!

  10. adrianne says

    Thanks Misty!!! you are too sweet!
    sarah- you are one lucky girl then! That would be so exciting to find even more of them! Glad you found me from 6th st design!!
    <3,
    Adri

  11. Anne says

    What did you do with the knobs that were on the doors when you got them?? I’ve been searching everywhere for knobs like those!!!