Well, a dream has finally come true this past month. We now have three front doors. Weird dream to have huh? Not really when I start to explain it to you.. You see, when we moved into this house it was a dream come true and a dream home for us, but like some people who buy old houses we wanted to make some changes to make it our own… so we have been busy doing that ever since we moved in. One of the big changes we wanted to make was to the front of the house. We eventually want to make a lot of changes to the front of the house, but these things take time, money, & planning that will all hopefully come with time since this is God willing our forever home. One project we saved up for & finally had completed was our front doors & it’s all because this was the darkest room in the entire home & it was a dream of ours to bring french doors to this space in our home. We wanted to turn the existing front door and the two windows in this space into three french doors, so that is what we did…

We used 5ft french doors that are Anderson brand that we purchased at West Michigan Lumber here locally to us in West Michigan. We had a builder install them as much of the front of our house had to be removed & our ceilings even had to be stabilized… big job for little us. We are blessed to know an amazing builder by us who goes along with our crazy ideas… couldn’t ask for more really! After the doors were installed the siding on the outside had to be repaired & the wall inside as well. We even removed that little wall that was inside so the room has for sure been opened up in a big way since we moved in. The project took the builders a week to do all of those things and more not listed like re-routing electrical and more. All in all we have no regrets & both think it was worth the mess, the money, & all of the time. I love how big this space looks now & how much light comes in… 

This was the room during the process:

& how it looks today…

If you ask me what project I would highly recommend when living in a fixer-upper, it would be to add light! Invest in windows & doors because light always makes a space better… in my humble opinion. I honestly did not like this room before because of how dark it was, the weird layout with the wall & just the overall aesthetic of it. I’m not one for dark spaces & I really thrive off a lot of light so this room with the open feeling and bright light all day is slowly becoming a favorite. We did hang curtains on the doors which I will talk more about later, but we picked them up at Pottery Barn at one of their big sales recently & love them for the added privacy when we use this space. More updates on this room coming very soon! It still doesn’t feel real that this is our home & that this little dream of three front doors came true. Lots of work to do, but enjoying every single moment of looking out these doors & walking out them onto our porch. I hope this gives you a good glimpse on the progress of this space & for more behind the scenes, head to our instagram for daily updates! Thank you guys so much for stopping by the blog today & every single day to see what we are up to! xx