A $46 DIY Made These "Cheap-Looking" Interior Doors Look Vintage

"Becky Colley (@mymanchome) spruced up her interior doors - four of them, totaling $185, or about $46 per door - in her home using moulding, glue, and paint. Before, if Becky described her doors to you while you were closing your eyes, you could probably picture them: They "were all cheap-looking, brown, and very '90s (and not in a good way)," she says - a familiar sight to many who live in homes built or renovated in the 1990s."

"Becky's doors were really cramping her apartment's style. She says they made her hallways, which already get very little natural light, feel darker, plus "they also didn't feel very respectful of the building's Victorian heritage," Becky says. (Her home was originally a merchant's warehouse building, completed around 1895, then converted into apartments in 1996.) "I'm lucky to have some amazing original features, like an exposed brick wall and cast-iron columns, and the doors felt really out of place," she adds."

"First, she primed each door, then trimmed the moulding to size and applied it with adhesive (she used No More Nails). Once dry, she gave the whole door two coats of paint. Becky used Zinsser's 1-2-3 primer and Johnstone's satin paint in Brilliant White for the doors; the new color brightened not just the doors, but also the hallways and rooms the doors belonged to."

""It sounds simple and is definitely an easy DIY, but it took a lot longer than expected!" Becky says. "There was a lot of measuring and sawing. I'd estimate each door took around a day, a""

Four interior doors were updated using moulding, adhesive, primer, and paint. The original doors looked cheap, brown, and very 1990s, making hallways feel darker due to limited natural light. The doors also conflicted with the building’s Victorian heritage, even though the home retained original features such as exposed brick and cast-iron columns. The process began with priming each door, then trimming moulding to size and attaching it with adhesive. After the moulding dried, the doors received two coats of paint. The new bright white finish improved the look of the doors and helped brighten the surrounding hallways and rooms. The work required significant measuring and sawing, taking about a day per door.

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