The Doors, Garage Band

Here's an update on the garage doors we hung earlier this year. We finally got around to adding the little diamond shapes on the windows. The idea was to make the garage-door windows match the stained-glass windows on the house (below). It's not a perfect match, but I think it looks good.

Each little diamond is four separate pieces of molding, cut to fit diagonally across the window. Pretty simple in concept, but the measuring and cutting were both a bit tricky. Each piece is cut to fit its exact location (lower-left corner of window #3, for example). I tried cutting four "generic" pieces of trim, but they didn't fit quite right. A difference of even 1/16 of an inch was noticeable, so I broke down and cut each one individually.

I suppose if we wanted to go for the full house treatment we'd stain the glass, too, but I'm not sure we want to go that far. It is just a garage, after all. And it's a whole lot better than the door that was here before.