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Our Edwardian Door Restoration

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With so many doors around our house in a complete state of disrepair, it was inevitable that we’d be sharing a door makeover with you sooner or later.

Our living room has already come a long way since first moving into our house. But, as with all of our other rooms, there is still a lot of work to do.

Modern Edwardian Living Room

The door is just one of the things on our long project To-Do list. This is what it’s like at the moment.

Edwardian Door Restoration

It really looks out of place with our newly plastered and painted walls and sanded floorboards. It feels like the whole room is let down by the door. It really makes it feel unfinished and very much like a building site.

Now, after a few hours of stripping and sanding, this is what it looks like.

Edwardian Door Restoration

Not a great improvement is it? As with the staircase, we used a heat gun to strip the paint. There is only one layer of paint on the door, so it’s proving quite easy to strip, the door frame though is another matter.

There are so many layers of paint on it that it’s taking forever. The detail on the frame and door isn’t helping matters, either. There are so many curves and corners! As usual, sanding is taking much longer than expected.

Stripping A Doorframe

After a few more hours of sanding, it’s time to paint the door. Don’t forget to prime the knots with a knotting solution! If you skip this step, the knots will eventually shine through the new paintwork. Annoyingly, we missed one or two when restoring our bathroom door. You can see them here.

When painting a panelled door, you should start by painting the beading and then the panels.

How To Paint A Door

Then you can start to paint the rest of the door. Start with the horizontal areas and finish with the vertical ones. This way you should avoid brush marks. Remember to also finish on an upward brushstroke, as this will also minimise any brush marks.

Let the paint completely dry and then sand the whole area with very fine sandpaper. We usually use 240 grit paper to do this.

Using the same method as for the door, we stripped, sanded and painted the frame, too. As usual, everything took longer than expected, but lucky for you, there’s no need to wait to see the result as here it is

Restored Edwardian Door

It makes such a huge difference to the whole feel of the room.

Restored Edwardian Door

The corner of the room seems so much brighter and the room now definitely has that finished feel. As usual here are our before and after pictures.

Edwardian Door Before and After

We’re so happy to have finally restored the living room door and more importantly it was the last bit of building work that the room needed!

Edwardian Door

Of course, we still need some more furniture and just general finishing touches, but the room itself is finished! Still can’t quite get over it!

What do you think of our finished door? We are painting all of the woodwork in our house white, but do you think that we should have left the doors in the natural wood finish?

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  1. Jade T says

    21/11/2020 at 13:37

    Hi what is the door knob product? Love it but can’t find anywhere! Jade

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    • Christine says

      22/11/2020 at 16:53

      They’re gorgeous door knobs, aren’t they? The ones we opted for have concealed fixings (I hate seeing screws) are these Delamain door knobs in satin chrome.
      Cx

      Reply
  2. Sarah Fitzgerald says

    08/07/2018 at 08:23

    Hello,

    I came across this while looking for ideas for restoring our Victorian doors – they’re currently covered with board!

    The white colour looks fab and so bright!

    Just wondering what finish you used on the doors and matching skirts and door surrounds? And do they still look good?

    Many thanks!

    Reply
    • Christine says

      10/07/2018 at 10:26

      Thanks for the compliments about our doors, Sarah!
      We used the same paint on almost all of our doors, skirting and frames. It’s all Dulux oil-based paint in an eggshell finish. It worked well but we did find that it started to turn a bit yellow over time (apparently they’ve since changed the paint so that that doesn’t happen anymore).
      We eventually switched to Farrow & Ball All White floor paint in modern eggshell (we found the floor paint to be really durable). It’s waterbased so easier and quicker to apply.
      Cx

      Reply
  3. Lucy says

    15/02/2015 at 19:28

    That door knob looks fab. I have been looking everywhere but couldn’t find one like it… Would you be kind and let me know where I could get something like that? Thanks.

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    • Christine says

      15/02/2015 at 20:08

      Thanks Lucy. The door knobs are Delamain plain mortice knobs in satin (with concealed fixings). Had them for 4 years now and they still look as good as new. Can’t remember where be got them, but I’m sure google will be able to help! ;)
      Cx

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      • Hollie says

        26/06/2016 at 20:25

        Hi

        What size are the knobs?

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        • Christine says

          27/06/2016 at 08:22

          These are the knobs that we used.
          Cx

          Reply
  4. Marsha Decker says

    22/02/2013 at 16:02

    The door looks GREAT!!!.. Wow… the hard work totally paid off and it looks amazing! I just can’t get over it. I actually thought the reveal pic was what you wanted it to look like (from a magazine) and then saw it was your actual door. So wonderful! Congrats! and although I love exposed wood… the white is refreshing and looks perfect in your room. Congrats again!

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    • Christine says

      22/02/2013 at 17:04

      Wow, thank you! That’s so kind. Only another 7 doors to go! ;-)
      Cx

      Reply
  5. Magali@TheLittleWhiteHouse says

    21/02/2013 at 12:48

    I love the door in white! As much as I love wood doors, I believe in old houses white doors and trim bring more light in.

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    • Christine says

      21/02/2013 at 15:51

      Thanks. We’re really happy with the result, too. The door had previously been stained, so it would have been almost impossible to achieve an even wood colour. I still can’t believe how long it took us to get round to painting the door, especially as it makes such a difference to the room.
      Cx

      Reply
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