Laundry Room Door Makeover

When Winston was about 2 weeks old, this amazing home by us had an estate sale. The home was built in the early 1900’s and remained mainly original. What that means to us is door goldmines! We walked away from that estate sale with roughly 20 doors, all unique and super old.

I knew right away that one would make an amazing Laundry room door for our kitchen, and now we finally got it done!

Here is how this door started for us:

It had amazing bones. The best part of all old doors is that they are actually solid wood, not like all the hollow doors these days. This beauty just needed some cleaning up. I removed the plastic piece of design, we then soaked the hardware to remove the many layers of paint on it. The best way we have found to do this is in a crockpot overnight. Just put it on low and fill with soapy water. In the morning the paint should be able to scrape off super easily without damaging the hardware.

Once all that was done, the fun painting came. We gave the door a light sanding and then painted it with our favorite Sherwin Williams Pro Classic paint. I talked about how amazing this paint is in our post on the dresser makeover for Winston’s room, and it was just as amazing again here.

It is amazing what a transformation a door can take by some fresh paint, and of course the removal of that plastic sheet;)

yes, that is scratching you see at the bottom. Just a little perk of having dogs… :/

I love that we were able to restore this door and give it life again. We also were able to use a fun vintage set of knobs from eBay that add a ton of character:

There wasn’t anything technically wrong with our old laundry room door, so we will most likely find another spot for it {either in a flip or a different home}, but man I am glad we changed it. Here was the laundry room door before, and now:

What do you think? The only thing the door is missing is the Laundry decal. We are going to go with the same one we did in our old house three years ago! Why change something that you still love so much, right?!

Hope you all have such a great weekend. Jeremy is off of work- so family time and date nights are definitely on the agenda!

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