Our basement has doors!

The basement finishing continues to move along. The newest addition: doors! I was on kid duty so, unfortunately, I have zero pictures or details on the physical hanging of the doors.

I promise the doors are level. I just couldn’t seem to get a straight photo. #bloggerfail

Don’t fret though. I do have some info on how we fixed an oops with one of the doors. {Those stories are better anyways, right?!}

My craft room has a set of double doors on it. The only thing I insisted on with the doors were that they did not have the little pressure mounted thing at the top {think apartment laundry room doors} because it constantly needs readjusting. So, Mathlete bought me double doors where the handles actually turn and open/close the doors.

When we built the room, Mathlete framed the opening for a standard size double door. BUT, the doors I wanted were special order and slightly smaller. Yep, there is the oops I mentioned! Now there was a gap between the door frame and the drywall.

No problem! Mathlete bought a small piece of drywall and put it into the gap.

Then, using this stuff

He “mudded” over the drywall to prep it for tape.

Once the mud was smoothed out, he applied the drywall tape.

Then, mud again.

The only trick is to make sure that, as the addition mud is being added, it needs to be really smooth so it matched with the other existing drywall.