Your front door is one of the hardest-working parts of your house. Not only does it have to withstand whatever weather Mother Nature throws at it, but it also has to deal with being opened and closed, ...

Q: I have an old house with an old door that has been painted over and over and looks horrible. It is on the side of the house that faces east, which does not help, as the door gets baked at sunrise.

Q: We are so tired of looking at our front door. It was moldy, and we tried scrubbing the mold but it didn’t work. So we sanded it, and sanded through the veneer. We’d like to paint the door, but what ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to the 70th installment of Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at ...