As you may or may not know, our refrigerator is old and gross. It's kind of
moldy, the freezer light is out, there are exposed wires inside where
someone ripped out the ice maker before we moved in, and things on the top
shelf of the fridge have a tendency to be frozen while things in the freezer
are sometimes not quite as cold as you'd like them. In short, we need a new
fridge. So we went looking at fridges while we were off from work after the
wedding, and we fell in love with this beautiful
Samsung refrigerator.
Unfortunately, both are too large to fit through our tiny Victorian
doorways. But instead of doing the reasonable thing and buying a smaller
fridge, we've decided to go ahead and just widen the doorway. Ridiculous, I
know.
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| Our new back door. |
The door has been purchased and is sitting in the backyard. All that's left
is to remove the old door, widen the doorway, and install it. Amazing,
right? Uncle Don came over on Saturday to take down some of the door frame,
just to get an idea of what is waiting for him behind our walls. Not a
whole lot, from the looks of it. I was hoping maybe there'd be wads of cash
back there, but no such luck. Heck, we don't even have insulation back
there. No wonder it's so cold in here all the time!
We're keeping the trim to use on the doorway we'll probably make during the
Big Kitchen Redo (which probably won't be happening for several years) since
it won't fit around the new door. Check out all of the awful layers of
paint on these things! I really don't know what the past owners of this
house were thinking when they painted their kitchen in all those horrible
colors. I think our donations to the paint layers will be a lot more
pleasant.
So that's all I've got for you so far. Chris and I have to pick out
hardware for the new door, which I'm sure will be a lot of fun. I think the
plan is to install the door on Friday, so I guess we'd better get shopping!
