French Door Transformation

My mom recently took on one of those types of projects that always make you say “Why didn’t I do that years ago?”  They have two sets of French doors in their living room that lead out to the screened-in porch.  It occurred to her one day to remove the grilles that give the glass a paned appearance.   This is a set that is in the master bedroom, since the original living room before photos came out too dark.

As you can see, there was a grille on either side of the glass.  Google tells me that the official term for these are muntin bars.  See, you learned something from this blog today!

These actually screw together on either side of the glass to hold the glass into the door, so they had to remove one at a time.  

Then my dad used his dremel tool to remove the inside muntin bars. This was a tedious process!

Then they screwed the frame back to the door.  A good bit of scraping and cleaning was involved.  

But the end result was totally worth it! 

The room looks so much bigger, bright and less cluttered!

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AFTER:

What sort of simple projects that make a big impact have you done lately?

Linking up with Metamorphosis Monday, and the DIY Showoff.