I’m going to walk you through how I updated my front door design with this DIY modern geometric door design!
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Materials
- BEHR MARQUEE #PPU18-01 Cracked Pepper semi-gloss paint
- Alex painters acrylic latex caulk
- Weaber 1/4 in x 3 in x 3 ft S4S boards from Home Depot
- wood filler
Tools
- saw – I used my miter saw to cut the boards and my jig saw to try to cut around the door knobs for this project, but just anything to get it to the size you need it to be. Sometimes Home Depot will do it for you if you don’t have a saw, but they also rent out tools!
Either
- pneumatic brad nailer
- air compressor – you don’t need this if you have a cordless nailer
- 1/4″ NPT air compressor tool kit with hose and accessories – you don’t need this if you have a cordless nailer
or
Steps
First, if you are more of a visual person, feel free to check out my youtube video & subscribe to my channel!
Otherwise, here are the main steps for this project. You can click the different steps to jump to those sections or just keep scrolling along!
First, this is what I was starting out with.
1. Measure your door to figure out the door design
To start, I am more of a visual person. Therefore, I had to draw it out on my iPad (I use the Sketch app) to figure out how many horizontal boards I wanted and how far apart they should be (see below).
Then, decide the type of design you want. I like the more mid-century modern look. So I opted to have more horizontal boards (6 total). This meant I had 5 spaces between them (I numbered them on my sketch above in case that’s helpful).
Here is my math to figure out how much space to put between them:
- 83″ (height of my door) – [2.5″ (actual width of boards) x 6 boards] = 83 – 15 = 68″ for the space not occupied by boards on my door
- 68″ / 5 spaces = 13.6″ between the boards
2. Cut & nail onto door
Now, I cut the boards. Check out my sketch to see the overall layout that they ended up in. Cutting around the knobs was a little tricky, but since they are pretty thin, it wasn’t too bad. I ended up using my jig saw for that part since it was a round cut.
Cut one at a time and tape them up against the door. Then measure the space on the door before you cut because sometimes your measurements aren’t perfect or the floors aren’t perfectly level, etc (see image below).
Cutting around the door knob was especially tricky. So, it’s especially helpful to tape the boards up and try to draw where to cut out the part for the door knob.
After I had the boards all cut and taped to the door, I used my nail gun to nail them to the door.
Once all of the boards were attached, I removed all of the tape.
3. Finishing touches for door design
For the final stretch, I used wood filler to fill in the little holes where I nailed and the cracks between boards to make sure it all looked smooth (then sand, of course!).
As you probably know, I am obsessed with caulk, so I then used caulk to fill in where the boards met the door to make sure it had a nice finished look.
The general rule of thumb for picking paint colors is to pick something with more sheen for the door compared to the walls. So that’s why I picked a semi-gloss paint. I finished up with 2 coats on that bad boy.
…and taahh daaaahhh!
Lastly, leave a comment and let me know your thoughts!
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If you want to try out a design on your door, but want to look at more door design ideas, check out my Door Makeover Pinterest board!
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