This past fall we decided to finally make our formal living room my hubby’s office and a library/music area. This room is large and we have some great plans for it but first we needed some french doors so my man could work without hearing all the household noises. Lowes was our go to place for the french doors. We purchased two sets, unfinished and framed. If you follow me on Instagram (bloomingange) then you caught some pics of the action and even the finished product. The hubby did all the hard work of installing the doors, cutting out some drywall, fitting them in, installing the trim around the doors. I forgot to mention he did have some help.
For my part, I did the painting and let me tell you, 4 doors with 800 mullion windows took a long long time. Seriously, priming the doors and painting 3 coats of black paint was no easy task. I also had to convince the hubby that black doors would look amazing. Thanks to Pinterest it wasn’t too hard. Here are a few of my inspiration pics.
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Just a reminder, here is how the entryway looked last fall after I did the cloffice and entryway along with painting the trim white. The formal living room was never being used (unless you count the kids using the couches for gymnastics) so I finally convinced the hubby to try it out as his office. He brought up his little desk from the dungeon and did a test run.
Here it is now with the french doors and a new paint color and much bigger desk for the hubby’s office.
The dining room has had a few changes, mainly the giant mothership boob light is gone and a new paint color on the walls. Still need some curtains in here. The french doors really give it such an elegant look, I love it!
As you can see, for a while we were using the oak door slabs from when we replaced our interior doors. This didn’t work very well, the french doors are much much better. The next few shots are from inside the office looking towards the dining room and the entryway.
I love, love, love these doors. They have added such an elegant look to our home. Thank you Lowes and handsome hubby!
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those look awesome!! Good job guys!!
They look great! I think it looks better with the doors and I love the black.. I am in the process of painting all of our woodwork white, but have started painting all of the doors dark gray!
Love it.
i absolutely L-O-V-E them. i don’t have french doors, but if i did…. watch out!
Wow, what a huge difference and I’m am digging the black. So glad you went for it! Kind of makes me want to paint our french doors black.
That looks absolutely beautiful. I love what a huge difference it makes. I can only imagine how much work it was to paint it. You did a great job.
I love your doors!! You and your hubby did a great job! What a difference!!
Ange these look amazing! I can’t believe the transformation. The black really makes it pop 🙂 Can’t wait for August!!
Can you please tell me what colour you used in your dining room? It’s gorgeous!
I love how much of a difference these doors make, and in black too, it’s certainly broadened my mind! xx
Love love love them Ange! They look amazing in your house! I was actually linking to you about this very topic in my post today when I realized you wrote about the same subject matter – how timely! Also I really like the hardware you chose….the curved doorknobs are so pretty!
Oh NO! Between you and Lisa my white doors don’t stand a chance! The black is so glam, so sophisticated, just perfect!
These doors look great!!! I love that you painted them black 🙂
Have a fabulous weekend!
Your doors are beautiul! Very luxurious and swanky! 🙂
Oh my goodness! They turned out fabulous!
I love the doors! Classy classy classy! Maybe black will be the new black?
These really look amazing. I will be featuring them tonight at my Winter Blues Wednesday party that opens at 8pm EST. Please stop by and pick up an I’ve Been Featured button. Thanks.
They are gorgeous, and totally worth all of the trouble!
oh please please tell me what is that glorious blue paint color you used in the room with the flowers in the corner?
These doors look AWESOME pained in black! Love it..