Our salvaged screen door from the Portland ReBuilding Center is complete! And it only took a week! :) I think the total cost of the rehab for supplies and hardware came to about $175.00. I priced out new vintage style screen doors online and with similar hardware were over $500 each plus shipping and we would’ve had to order a custom height as most new storms and screens were 4″ short.

I’m definitely happy with our recycled door. Stripping and sanding was much easier than our main door. The only complications were that Jeremy had to cut the door to fit before we stained it. He also had to fill the old mortise cut out with some fir as we didn’t want to spend the money for a mortise screen door lock set.

Before and after stripping:

Sanded

We went with the Rejuvenation Pulman knob as the Lowe’s version didn’t have a back plate, and we needed to mask some holes from the original handle installation. We are sure the original handle was like the Rejuvenation version as there was an imprint of the face/back plates on the door after we stripped it. It fit pretty in with little effort as well, once Jeremy redrilled holes through the fir mortise area.

Jeremy also added new trim and custom removable screen inserts for easy future replacement. It’s fabulous! And it also has pretty kick stand I added.

Isn’t it beautiful? :D

5 Responses to “Screen Door: A Happy Ending”

1. Sandy says:

   November 13, 2007 at 6:56 am

   Yes, it is beautiful! Nice work.
2. Tracy says:

   November 13, 2007 at 11:39 am

   The doors look great! Are you guys planning on doing that with all the trim on the outside of the house? If so, that’s going to be so much work and I feel for you. hehe I think it’s strange that one door opens from one side and the other from the other side. I’ve never seen that before!
3. Dawn says:

   November 13, 2007 at 4:34 pm

   It’s weird that the doors swing two different ways, but the original front door was set up that way and they probably never even had a screen door in mind at the time.

   We could’ve switched it when we redid the knob, but we would’ve had ugly hinge cuts to cover on the trim (pretty hard when you want to stain everything). The porch door also had to swing into the porch, otherwise when you open it you’d be blocked in at the staircase. There’s not much space between the width of the stairs and the door, it wouild be awkward, so we had to work with it. :)
4. Nicole says:

   November 14, 2007 at 7:21 am

   It looks great! Definitely a good choice.
5. Jennifer says:

   November 14, 2007 at 1:51 pm

   Our front door and screen door are like that, also. I need to find a door like that somewhere!