Why you should try to build at least one door (or hire me to do it for you)
I've built a couple dozen doors - French doors (or "Freedom Doors", as I prefer it), screen doors, front doors, cabinet doors, and barn doors. It's labor intensive and very precise work to make them, but buying them retail is almost impossibly expensive. If you are a decent woodworker with a little space and some ambition, building doors is a great way to improve your skills at basic joinery, and even get fancy if you feel like it.
This Craftsman style front door is made of Sapele with maple inlays and seeded glass. Sapele is heavy and difficult to work, but gorgeous wood.
I went to Home Depot to look at doors and figure out how they are built, and a guy said "looking to buy some doors?" I said, "No, I'm just looking at how they are made so I can build my own the way I want it." He said "That's not as easy as you think. You can't really just build a door."
Welcome to Wrongsville- capital city of the great state of Incorrectington, chump. In his defense, I was at the Home Depot in East Atlanta, where 87% of guys don't know which end of the screwdriver to hold.
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