THE CAVENDER DIARY

Yupp,

There used to be a door from our garage to the backyard. See? Right there in the corner.

It was painted Linda Blair puke-green, like the garage, when we moved in.

When we painted the garage to match the rest of the house, “Sweet-Cream”, I think, it continued to disappear.

We don’t use it. There’s also a door from the kitchen to the garage.

Don’t think we ever have. Behind it is behind a row of metro shelving holding precious things.

When we decided to build the deck, there was a brief….extremely brief….discussion about whether we really needed it at all.

We don’t.

Was it worth the hassle, and lost storage, of moving it up 2 feet and building a platform for it inside the garage?

It’s not.

(Pretty sure I covered the back side in cedar planking anyway……Oooops.)

So it’s going Bu-Bye, …….sort of

Jamie pried off the trim from around the edges.

Then he built a 2X4 frame inside the door jamb – directly over the fiberglass door.

Set inside exactly 1/2 inch.

The perfect depth for a 1/2″ sheet of pressure-treated plywood…..

….so it was flush with the exterior wall.

I went around the edges and seams with exterior caulk……

…..and painted it the same color as the exterior of the house/garage…..again.

Then we had the deck built around it.

Just like that…..

No more door.

I know, it’s not perfect.

But we think we have a plan to re-clad the side of the garage with something anyway. Maybe corrugated sheet metal. Maybe barn wood.

Dunno,

Somethin’ cool, that’s for sure.

Stay tuned,