Knock, Knock, Knocking on Heavens Door

That's what you'll be humming after you visit Taylor's Victorian Screen Doors.

Tim called our carpenter last night and he said not next week, but the week after that he'd be here. So Tim's on a kick to get the exterior of the house finished this summer. I'm left sitting inside with mounds of woodwork wondering why the priority shifted, but after so many years together you learn how far arguing certain points will get you. This is one of those points.

So he's got a list a mile long of stuff for this guy to do. I think he pictures himself on the porch with a tea in his hand watching this guy work. I've never understood, but for some reason the guy gets a warm fuzzy feeling watching other people do his work. I on the other had will be yelling at the poor guy, "Oh no you have the nails to far apart. They (always refer to someone else and you'll make your argument more valid) say this distance is better. Oh, just let me do it." At this point I push him off the porch and take over, perfectly happy to pay him to watch me do it the "right way." Don't worry Tim will offer him a drink. I guess it's one of those opposites attract things.

But I've lost control of my train of thought. Back to the screen doors. In further efforts to gothisize (if that wasn't a word it is now) the house Tim plans on combining two of Taylor's designs. The top would consist of the top of this door without the bottom scrolls and arches,


and with a bottom like the picture below.


I personally just like this one with out the modification. It looks more like the original screen doors that were on the house.

We already have the hardware for these some where in the piles. We bought them as part of our first Van Dykes order because we thought they were the neatest things ever. The hinges have the springs built in so they "snap" close like a proper screen door should with out those big nasty hinges stretching across the door.