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. But I’m sure it won’t be replaced for a least another few months and I was 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 paint from the garage. I can’t get enough of it and, though I don’t want this color long term, it’s fun to live with it for a little while. Why didn’t I do this years ago?

In other incredibly exciting front door news, a new-to-me vintage escutcheon arrived! I’m 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 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 take with me if ever we move out of this house.