What beauties!

After looking at various alternative designs and suppliers, I ordered the doors for my proposed new cloaks cupboard a week or so ago and have been waiting for them to arrive. Well, today was the day and after I’d been told by the delivery company that they’d probably be with me this afternoon, in fact they arrived quite early this morning.

And what a pleasant surprise I got. But firstly a few pictures starting with the alcove in which I’ll be building the cupboard.

Next my original plan for the cupboard from when I designed the house. I always wanted to have bi-fold sliding doors but initially my idea was for them to be solid white in form and not up to the full height of the alcove.

Since then I decided to make them natural wood to match all of the other woodwork in the house, and as I want to fit possibly two full-width storage shelves, and as less than full-height doors would restrict access to the upper one, I decided to make them the full height of the alcove. And here they are this morning standing together leaning against a wall in my living room.

What beauties they are! In France this louvre design is called ‘Persienne’. I now know that I’ve made the right choices and can’t wait to get cracking on building the cupboard structure in which to mount them. They’ve come all the way from Poland and an added bonus was when I removed the plastic film in which each one had been wrapped I was treated to the gorgeous smell of freshly cut wood. What a way to start a Monday morning 😀