Door Restoration, Repair, and Decoration
Your front door is more than a means of entry, it is an expression of you, and the focus of attention when visitors come to your home. Let Urban Revivals help you with your grand entrance or interior doors, to revive or embellish this important part of your home's architecture. Urban Revivals can apply its experience in furniture repair and decorative surface faux finishing to your doors.
Don't proceed in haste; superficial cleaning and coatings can disfigure the historical character of your doors. Urban Revivals can restore door finishes, as well as restore depth and clarity to carvings. We can add pilaster columns, regular columns, cornices, corbels, keystones, and other architectural accents, for a more exciting door surround.
Restoration in Progress
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Stenciling Doors with Victorian Motifs.This simple laundry room door now blends in beautifully with this faux aged plaster room.
After restoring a door, consider appliques and trim molding. This ornament not only adds Victorian details but can help you cover blemishes in the wood.
Refinishing is very labor intensive.The removal of repeated coats of stain, paint, varnish, lacquers, or polyurethanes is back breaking labor. Have chisels, and for exterior panels, you may require belt, orbital, and palm sanders. Wood of historical significance should not be heavily sanded without consulting an expert first, as you may damage its value or appearance.
Door damage from scratching dogs, before repair.
Door restoration, afterwards.>
Never used undersized molding around large Victorian doors. This door, in a room 13 feet tall, demands wide door moldings. The fluted casing is 5 1/2 inches in width, and that is standard for rooms with high ceilings.
Door, Ceiling ornament, and paint restoration, by Urban Revivals, at the Wyland Building, Washington DC