Shrinking a front door void

[brianj42]

This will probably be a new one for many. I have bought a pub and converting to a house. The front door is 160cm wide and I want to fill it in by 500mm (wife, door, choice, smaller).

Simple blockwork column or timber frame ?

 

[wakey77]

combination frame / door with glass panel Iintel to floor either side.
decorative functional less work.

 

[brianj42]

Unfortunately Wakey, wife and mother in law have spoken. So I am stuck with reducing the front door by 500mm.

 

[JohnD]

get new wife

 

[brianj42]

Done that John, on number three. Not sure I want to go through all that again for the sake of a front door.....

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Feed wife pies, lardy cake and dripping on toast until door is right size.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Seriously, I think an awful lot of people would give their eye teeth for an opening big enough for an imposing front door. Does SWMBO have a plan on how to usefully use the space liberated by making the opening narrower?

If not, why on earth does it matter so much to her?

combination frame / door with glass panel Iintel to floor either side.
decorative functional less work.

Unfortunately Wakey, wife and mother in law have spoken. So I am stuck with reducing the front door by 500mm.

But Wakey's suggestion would give you a narrower door, but instead of a solid wall next to it you'd have a glass panel which would admit light and be nothing but goodness.

Unless the women have some vital plan to use that extra 50cm of return.

 

[wakey77]

To be honest i think a lot of people get caught up in the ideas projected into there minds by these grand designs programmes etc when renovating / converting buildings into houses instead of looking at the building and going along with its charachter and original purpose im not saying have a bar and dart board in your front room (although)
but keeping some of the charachter and originality of some of these buildings can actually save a lot of money and make for a very interesting home.

 

[brianj42]

So. Rather than fight this bugger, and upon advice above, we/I have made an executive decision. Stick the door back on Ebay and get one that not only fits the bigger opening, but (as pointed out), compliments the building.

I have my eye on a nice set of oak double doors that will do just nicely....

 

[brianj42]

Wakey

You are going to like what we are now doing. 1.6 wide double mahogany doors with stained glass.. Rather befitting for the building. I will post pics once its fitted.

Thanks to all for talking me out of buggering up the front of the house.....