My Attempt at a Repurposed Door Privacy Fence

by Wendy D

This just the beginning! I am a bit of a dumpster diver, on, my nickname is dumpster diving diva. Hey, the first step is admitting it right? So... The door on the far left and the 2nd one in are from just driving to work. It was winter but the snow was beginniby to melt. I happen to look over by a swamp, and what is semi-submerged? Those 2 doors and a couple Windows. I coax my co-worker to follow me home and help me dig them out. After getting them home and letting them "season" to the warmer weather, I figured it was high time I did something with them. I was lucky in the fact that they both still had their hinges! I scrubbed them up, scraped 4" of old paint off and decided to just attach them together. I apologize I don't have any before photos. This is the finished product for now. I'm going to keep adding doors as I find them!

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This is not my final answer! But it's as far as I got!

Here you will see what my HHR looks like on clean up day around the area! The door was the last thing I could fit! I love playing car Tetris!

You will notice I actually started out with 3 doors. The first 2 are my swampies and the 3rd is from my clean up sweep! I kicked out the top panel on the door on the right because it couldn't decide if it wanted to come out or stay in. Each door got a bit of sanding and then sporadically painted with whatever I had in my basement. As you can see I have a favorite color! I put maybe 1 coat of my base color, turquoise, and then wiped a bit of stain all over and wiped it off to give it a grainy look.

All in all it took me roughly 6 hours split between 3 days. I had more fun decorating it too!

Some close ups

Stuff just laying around in my shed

Hope you enjoyed! I just came privy to another door, so I will be adding that as soon as I repair what I had. A lovely gust of wind came and knocked it down and broke the white door in half. I didn't have a chance to secure it to the cement yet. Oh well keeps me out of trouble!