Doors

Painting the front door of your house is remarkably like trimming your own hair - you really hope that when people see the end result, they will think "that looks nice" rather than "oh, dear, she must have done that herself."

Herself painted both the front and the back doors of the house in the past few days.  The back door needed significantly more work - there were scratch marks on the frame from a time when ancient and decrepit dog, may she rest in peace, desperately wanted to come inside faster than the humans were opening the door. The weather stripping was a tad gnawed, too.  Herself spackled, sanded, replaced the weather stripping, and repainted the door and the frame.  Not too bad.  She did the front door, too - it had a touch of peeling around the edges. That door was trickier because of all the glass. It turned out OK as well.

She's not too sure of the color; perhaps it has just a tiny bit too pink of an undertone. Or perhaps it's just right, like a new lipstick to which one has yet to become accustomed.  Either way, what we would really like to know is:  who gets to label the paint colors? They have such fabulous names.