SUBURBAN * POP

Those Palm Springs houses put mine to shame and gave me some renewed enthusiasm for house projects, though time will tell how short-lived. Inspired, I eagerly painted our old front door the day after we got home before I even unpacked.To clarify, this door is on its way out as a new one sits in the garage waiting to be installed. Again, just call me crazy. But I’m sure it won’t be replaced for a least another few months and I’m so sick of looking at the beat up beige interior of this one. I took this opportunity to go peachy coral for a moment with some unused trim paint from the garage. I guess I’m going through a phase after my daughter’s bedroom. I can’t get enough of it and, though I don’t want this for the front door long term, it’s fun to switch things up. The color isn’t a dramatic change from what used to be on the exterior, but it looks so much better. Why didn’t I do this years ago? Oh, because of all the other projects I’ve been saying that about. Do you find my lack of baseboards disturbing?
In other incredibly exciting front door news, a new-to-me vintage escutcheon arrived! I’m pretty obsessed. It’s the original model of the reproduction Samba escutcheons that Rejuvenation sells. After so much internal debate about what knob/escutcheon to get for the new door, my heart kept coming back to this. I really prefer vintage and Rejuvenation stopped selling their escutcheon seperately from the knob, which I don’t love in combination with this plate. Waiting it out finally paid off. I was thrilled to have this NOS piece fall from the eBay sky a few weeks ago and now it’s all mine! Adding this to the list of fixtures I need to plunder if ever we move out of this house.The house exterior is demanding some major painting and landscaping, so I’ll be outside if you need me. xoxo