Before + After — Drinking with Chickens

I know what you’re thinking: it’s kinda cool, right? It’s probably not original-to-the-house stained glass, but it’s stained glass (pink, nonetheless!). But before you get loud about us messing with this—there were some issues. Firstly, this was an interior door that had been modified to have the stained glass window. It wasn’t a big, sturdy exterior door. There was actually a reason for this, and I’ll get into it more later….but the entire house didn’t have a single stud in it. All the walls were simple board and batten (what you see on the exterior of the house). There were no studs. Just board and batten with a layer of interior paneling put across the inside, and in some cases, just wallpaper straight over the board and batten (I’ll share images of this in the next post). So they used a thin door because they had thin walls. Needless to say, the door wasn’t very sturdy (and I would say the same about the the thin walls, but hey—they’ve stood for over 100 years, so I can’t really sit here and knock it. Literally. Don’t knock on them, okay? Thanks.)

Yes. We wound up building out ALL THE WALLS. So that they were actually walls, with studs and insulation and all the proper ingredients.

Aside from all this, we established in the previous post that the existing front door was on the side of the house and it was just a weird location. The front of the house needed a front door. A real one. So we put one in the front (along with a porch and pergola) and turned the “front” side door into a side side door. Capeesh?