Doors to Opportunity: What will yours look like?
If you are to build a dream home, how would you enter such a proposition, such a vision you compose? Would you simply buy a boring box w/ a commoner door like most I've seen?
So you finally find the Door of Opportunity and only get one chance to get through it... which doorknob do you try?
No cheating... the answer is obvious to less than a Sherlock Holmes but how many will miss the clue? You?
While you can hardly imagine all the people who may have gone through a doorway like this in the century past, you may be able to envision it being your front door. Then memories will be made for your family and much more, the many who will ooo and ahhhhh when they see this art alive and living in a house again, not just waiting for that life.
Some doors came from the convent in a place some may still know, the King William District in San Antonion is the place this door did go but that has been a long time ago now.
I have the sidelights to go with these doors from long ago. They had shutters for the big bad storms due to the cost of glass that was hand blown into giant bubbles that someone cut to make the panes that were then shipped by train to last a century to date.
Imagine the end of the closet that slides to the side to expose the hidden room that was half of the walk-in closet you convert so you have that “She-Shack” in your home, “Don’t need a Tiny House outside then. hehe. Safe rooms from the kids and hubby, or to hide with your closest friend?
What would you use the doors of opportunity to create? An a-door-able house or ceiling when you have to choose to use these instead of sheetrock that the normal builders will espouse as the cheapest way to build a house, no matter what I say. I suggest you use a door or two for a wainscot or a wall. Use them for a ceiling in the den or what some call a library one seldom sees in a home built anymore.
What would your doors of opportunity and creativity look like? Would you create with the parts from the past to have something today that the other people with THOWs for houses would clearly then envy? It would not be just beautiful and sustainable, it would also be pretty too. House Art with the 95% Pure Salvage Living Renaissance from the start is possible, beautiful, and needs you to build them too. Please consider helping fill a demand that grows each day. My goal was not to build them all but get you to do it this way. I create and thus you share, I pray.
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