While hunting on Pinterest, Layne found this photo and tucked it away for a future project:
Adam recently put in a door in our basement – it helps to keep the noise out from the utility room and keeps the pups out of the cat box. How do the cats get it? Adam installed a cat door, obviously! Below are the before and after photos from our easy and fun project.
This was step one – four coats of Behr’s Frost (1857). Note: We should have purchased the paint with built in primer – it, likely, would have saved us a couple coats.
It was at this point that Bennett found the fresh paint irresistible.
We quickly repainted the door after a strong verbal warning and a call to pet poison control. She’s doing fine. Who could stay mad at this face?
The next step was the taping. We measured the door (32″ wide by 72″ high) and divided the width by half to get our center point (16″) and divided the length by 8″ to produce (almost) nine really sweet stripes.
Then came the fun part – adding the mint green stripes (Behr’s Mint Hint 430A-1).
We were surprised by how subtle the differences between the colors were. We applied two coats. Here is the finished product. While difficult to see, the pattern adds a little bit of interest to an otherwise very bland white door.
