A New Day. I Mean Door.

Did you know I don't like my door? It's got one of those oval windows in it with fancy glass in it. Also, I hate pink brick against a light gray background. If this is the color scheme you picked for your new house, I'm sorry that I hate it.
Maybe I've mentioned to you that the color scheme in my house is rainbow. So I knew I wanted a blue door.

Here's what I painted it to look like. I let Lincoln pick out the color. I figured that way, if it looked ridiculous, I could just tell everyone that my son picked it out, absolving me of responsibility.

Then, I let the kids help me paint it. If there were mistakes (and how!), I could blame it on my kids. That's called 2nd-generation crafting, folks!

After I painted and hung the door, it stuck to the inside of the door frame. That was fun and unembarrassing when one of Joel's work superiors dropped Joel off and heard the ripping sound of our door opening. (Allow 24 hours to dry, people!) Also, the pink brick looked much worse next to a blue door and I knew my only option was to paint the brick white. I imagined that doing a sponge "treatment" would be easy and would look professional. It was easy. It only took an hour, but in person it looked like a piece of crap. Gray grout plus white paint = ugly, even for Harbor Park. So I had to spend at least five hours putting on 2 coats of primer. Most people use primer before they paint, but I like to use it as paint. I got real sick of painting that brick and I'm not in the mood to put flat white paint over flat white primer. Redundant!

Then, I bought a wicker chair at Saver's ($20! Where's the thrift in that?!) and spray painted it red. Then I made a pillow from some fabric handed down from Nadine. Welcome to 2011, Nadine.

I also bought a new doorbell. Joel just shakes his head at this, because our ugly, plastic, dingy doorbell still worked. But this one is cute. Now, who thinks they can sweet-talk Joel out of the big "decorative" ugly rocks in my flowerbed?