WOW, was it ever nice out today. High of 69 degrees after weeks of bitter cold with lows reaching the 20s!!  Winter hasn't even arrived and I'm already sick of coming home from work AFTER the sun goes down.

Anyway, with our beautiful sunny Saturday, we drove up to Madison with the 'ugly truckling', my beloved '86 toyota pickup, and bought 6 sheets of oriented strand board (OSB) for some garage workshop divider walls, and one very nice (and expensive) sheet of 3/4 inch plywood for my folding basement hatch project (upcoming).

On the way home, we decided to swing by the ReStore to see if they had any goodies. I was eyeing a full set of wrenches for $14.50 when Zoe called out for me to come look at something. I went to look, and discovered her by the doors.

We've been looking for french doors to go in between the living and dining rooms ever since we moved in, but it's hard to find doors to fit the space. (It's very tall and relatively narrow, (83 by 56 inches)

Well, one look at them, and a quick size check and we knew we had to have them. These doors are too short and too wide (figures), but unlike all the other doors we've looked at, they CAN be modified to fit. There's enough meat on the stiles (the side bits) to allow us to cut about 3/4 inch off each side, and the rails (top and bottom bits) are flat and smooth enough to scab on a bit on both ends to make up the ~4 inch gap. They have very solid, quality hardware, and nice old glass, with minor imperfections like bubbles and waves in them.  Pristine, flat glass just wouldn't look 'right'.