For all of you interested in historic home renovation we have a great resource here in Fort Wayne called The Wood Shack. They specialize in salvaging architectural parts from old houses and buildings. For homeowners like us this is an awesome place to pick up doors, trim, windows, etc that look like they belong in our own house! The shop is run by a super friendly and knowledgeable husband/wife duo and their store is a jam-packed architectural heaven.  They are proudly located downtown behind the Tincaps baseball stadium and they are big supporters of our historic neighborhoods and restoration in general.

As part of our kitchen remodel we have made the choice to convert the existing utility closet into a first floor powder room.  We currently have one full bath upstairs and a random  toilet in the middle of the basement laundry room but as time goes on we have realized that a first floor bathroom is pretty much a necessity.  We are going to have to remove the exterior door from that utility room in order to full enclose the area and make it functional as a bathroom.   This means that we will be adding an exterior door directly off the north side of the kitchen with direct access to the back porch.

We were in the market for an old exterior door and The Wood Shack had some great finds!

Our budget for this mini project was $200.00 and we were looking for a door with a good amount of glass so that we could capitalize on the natural light.  We were so excited to find this beauty!!

I am in L-O-V-E!! I can’t wait to see how this will look in our new kitchen. And now with a bit of elbow grease…well, maybe a lot of elbow grease…we are going to clean this door up and make it our own!

Shop local and check out The Wood Shack!

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