I stayed home with Inga today. She wasn't puking any more, but she had a fever and looked very pale. I got honey-lemon tea and chicken broth into her later in the morning. She's looking a bit better this evening.
We've been trying to figure out what to do for the front door and lower WC door in the Communist apartment. Both of the openings are non-standard sizes, so we can't just go out and buy something. (Plus what's the fun in that?)
We have a temporary front door installed, but it's a cheap hollow core that we bought used, and we had to trim almost 20 cm off the bottom, which both weakened it and made it look funny.
So our options were:
a) have something custom made ($$$$)
b) make something ourselves, or
c) buy something used and modify it
But what style? What kind of wood? hmmm...
Well, yesterday I was browsing some wrought iron supply sites, looking for balcony railings, when I saw these hand-forged iron nails mounted on a simple door. "That's it!"
Eric loved it too, so now we're on the hunt for a used solid wood door with simple paneling, either vertical or horizontal. If we can find something the right sizes, we can cut them to size, install new hinges and hardware, strip or paint depending on what's on the door, and then decorate it with these hand-forged nails.
And today, on FB marketplace, I found two doors from the same seller, exactly what we were looking for! One is smaller and would fit the WC opening and the other is plenty big for our front door. We're going to take a look at them tomorrow evening.
(These pictures are from the wrought iron website. The doors we're looking at tomorrow aren't very pretty right now but they have great potential.)
We've had a relaxing day at home. We watched two more episodes of Poldark, ate ham-cheese-egg crepes for dinner, and played card games afterwards.
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