Best DIY Door Tips: Installation, Framing and Hardware

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Best DIY Door Tips

Before we finish up Shut The Front Door DIY Week — we need to cover installing, framing, and door casings! Here are our best DIY door tips and ideas to get you going on beautifying and updating your doors: [/tps_header]

Installing Doors + Hardware

Beginning with the basics: how to paint a paneled door from Ugly Duckling House 

and Live Love DIY will teach you how to paint the door and NOT the hinges

while Magenta and Lime has plenty of tips for painting door hardware

or you can go the new route and install new door knobs and/or hinges — details at Young House Love.

Prefer an aged look? How to age brass doorknobs via Remodelaholic.

And if your door is older or if you build a heavier door — you’ll need to upgrade your hinges! Learn how from Wilker Do’s.

We shared a lot of barn doors, but if you aren’t into the exposed hardware, you can installing a pocket door – tutorial here.

Update the look of your home by replacing an interior door, with detailed info from Do It Yourself Design

Give a glass door some privacy with an easy DIY from Simple Southern Charm

Learn how to widen a doorway with Ron Hazelton

Turn bifold doors into French doors with a simple hack from Wife in Progress on Remodelaholic

Make a door into a swinging door via Curtain Queen Creates

Exterior doors need love, too! Follow along with installing a new exterior door at Our Home Notebook

and learn to install new exterior door trim from Annabode

And what about showers? Head to Ciburbanity to see how to install a new shower door.

Next page: door frames and casing –>