A new front door

This is the AFTER picture.

(It is so awesome!)

Here is the last BEFORE photo of our house with the sliding glass door and crappy kitchen.

The sliding glass door didn't allow us to have a specific dining table spot. Usually when you opened our front door, the sliding glass one, you had to walk around our kitchen table. Heath was making us a new table where we could all sit and eat without bellyaching that someone was touching us (heaven forbid!) and with the door where it was, there was no room at all for the new table.

So we decided to change it. My dad came up of course to help because tearing out an exterior wall was a new deal for Heath and I. We removed the large picture window first and framed in a new smaller window and the new door. Another reason we wanted to change the large window placement is so the window in the opposite wall would be in the same place on the opposite wall.

After the new front door was in place, we removed the sliding glass door and put the big picture window in it's place. Heath worked hard on all the painting and trimming it all back out on the inside as well as the outside.  Well, actually, the outside took us awhile. Like, most of the summer. Which was a strange coincidence that Kelsey didn't invite many friends over all summer!

Here is the finished product. We love that the dining room table has a home out of the way and we love that the new door is SO MUCH more efficient and warmer than the slider was in the winter, and we love that we still have our incredible view. These pictures also show our new kitchen. We love it all.