I Painted the Back Door

I painted the inside of the door black in 2020:

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Another item from my 2016 Projects list done, albeit not a very exciting one.  The original metal back door that goes from the yard into the living room has always been ugly brown on the inside and outside:

        

Now it’s black on the outside and white on the inside to match our other doors.  It’s a metal frame, so spray paint would have been optimal.  But since I didn’t want to take it off the house [the frame is screwed to the house like a storm window], I used Stix primer to give the inside and outside 2 coats.  I love my Little Giant ladder – it’s perfect for using on stairs:

       

It was nice weather for priming, not too hot:

        

On the left is a view from the fish ladder – you can see my DIY screen door directly above the yard door.  On the right is the primed frame – already an improvement over the brown:

         

I painted the outside black, using the same exterior black paint I used for the front door and the screen door:

        

I painted the screen insert black with the same primer and paint.  In hindsight I should have used spray paint.  I think I was in “paint” mode because I’d done the frame with paint.  Oh well:

        

It came out OK:

        

I did use spray paint [Rustoleum Metallic] to paint both sides of the glass insert [which we’ll swap out in colder weather]:

       

On a side note, while I had the exterior white paint out [for the inside of the door frame] I also painted the grey clapboards surrounding our front door [leftover from when our front stoop was installed].  Before on left, after on right:

      

Yesterday I went on an hour+ walk down Labor In Vain road in Ipswich.  It’s a very pretty road that follows the marshes and River:

       

        

        

       

       

I saw these girls on the edge of the road near the end of my walk – they made me smile 🙂

       

Yesterday was hubby and my 4th wedding anniversary!

He gave me beautiful flowers with a side of chocolate – he knows me well!  He had them sent to my office on Friday [total surprise!] and I carefully brought them home at the end of the day.  Birdie found the ferns to be quite tantalizing – enough to come down from her platforms for a closer look:

        

I drew hubby some crayon art which he’d been requesting for his office – it includes all our furry friends – Darwin & Bonkers sleeping in one tree with Aloha [RIP] watching from above with a crooked halo:

       

Birdie in the other tree, wearing her pink scarf like she is in the litter box enclosure art, and our 5 living rats:  Kona, Clarabell, Nibbler, Lava, & Franc at the bottom:

       

Yesterday after my walk I came home to find this on the INSIDE of the bedroom window screen FULL BODY SHUDDER:

Thankfully hubby convinced it it would rather be on the outside.  I would have had to move to a hotel if he hadn’t!

I’ll end this post with some pet pictures – Darwin relaxing, Bonkers drinking water, and Franc enjoying some summer breezes while I painted the door: