Follow-Up: updated original front door

Posted a while back asking about colors for our upcoming exterior repaint and so many of you begged me not to replace our original front door. Took that advice to heart and spent many hours stripping, scraping, sanding, staining and painting to keep the charm but with a more modern look.

8 layers of paint removal later, the original wood is beautiful. The inset panels are cheap plywood and didn’t have nice grain, so I elected to paint them in high contrast, and matched the upper diamond detail to make the wood stand out more.

Really happy with the result, so thanks for the encouragement! House repaint coming in a few weeks!