Some days I think like I’m completely unstoppable in terms of making development on initiatives. Different days, it’s all I will be able to do to get a entrance door painted and turn out a door knob. But if a painted entrance door makes this kind of large distinction, even that small process will also be lovely thrilling! Plus, I’ve marked off two more items from my 2025 list of home goals, and that by myself is lovely motivating for me. Infrequently it can pay to get the ones small duties completed simply so that you could mark the ones off your checklist. That feeling of feat in seeing the ones initiatives being checked off of the checklist is frequently so motivating for tackling the larger initiatives.

For my workshop, I selected the similar colour for the entrance door that I’ve used at the doorways of our area — Benjamin Moore Chook of Paradise. However this time, I had it colour matched at Sherwin Williams since that’s the place I went to buy the paint for the shutters that I made for the workshop. The colour fit used to be easiest, and this colour makes me smile each and every time I see it.

Let me remind you what the workshop gave the look of with the brand new shutters and a undeniable white entrance door…

And right here it’s with the blue shutters and the brand new coral entrance door…

And the way more or less the candy little stray kitty to pose for me, proper? 😀 He loves placing round after I’m running outdoor.

This colour is in reality saturated, and as is frequently the case with in reality saturated colours (particularly the rest this is crimson or red-adjacent), it took 3 coats to hide the whole lot. After the primary coat, it used to be having a look lovely streaky.

Two coats lined lovely smartly on many of the door, however there have been nonetheless streaky spaces across the home windows, so I went forward and did a 3rd coat. 3 coats lined completely, and it didn’t take lengthy in any respect. The primary coat took about quarter-hour, and the 2 next coats handiest took about 10 mins each and every.

I opted to tape off the home windows as a substitute of the usage of the paint-on window masks that you simply peel off after portray (which is what I used when I painted the French doors at the back of the studio). Since I sought after to try this briefly, taping in truth went a lot sooner, and I didn’t have to attend the hour (or now and again longer) for the paint-on masks to dry sooner than portray the door. Taping the home windows off handiest took about quarter-hour, after which I may get proper to portray.

The important thing to fast taping of home windows is to position the tape instantly throughout (which you’ll see on the best left of the picture beneath), after which return with a razor blade and lower the tape at an perspective to take away the surplus tape. That will give you easiest corners each and every time.

Right here’s some other have a look at what the door gave the look of after only one coat. You’ll be able to see how streaky it seems to be even from a distance. It wasn’t lovely. 😀

I sought after to position a keypad lock at the door so I will be able to get right of entry to the workshop any time reasonably than having to enter my studio and get the keys each and every time I sought after get right of entry to to the workshop, and because this door handiest has one doorknob and no deadbolt, the choices have been lovely slender. Maximum keypad locks are for deadbolts and no longer doorknobs. So I stopped up going with this Honeywell digital door knob that I discovered at Lowe’s. It’s not anything fancy. It doesn’t have wifi functions, so there’s no app that controls it. It’s only a easy contact pad lock, which is what I sought after for the workshop.

It used to be extremely easy to put in (it took about 5 mins), and thus far, I like it! Programming a brand new get right of entry to code took some other 5 mins. The directions have been very transparent and simple.

In order that’s two extra initiatives crossed off!

I’m happy that I had a few simple initiatives that I may do and take a look at off the checklist since the subsequent undertaking — including skirting across the backside of the workshop — isn’t a handy guide a rough and simple undertaking. However that’s the undertaking that can take this workshop to the following stage.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I percentage my DIY and adorning adventure as I transform and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is not able to do bodily paintings, so I do nearly all of the paintings at the area on my own. You can learn more about me here.