One of the big projects for this summer was to fresh up our house's entrance way, specifically the door. The door hadn't been painted in 10 years. The paint was chipping. The white looked a bit yellow. In other words, yuck.
All last year, we looked for a replacement door. We were thinking about going with one of those wrought iron doors with the glass inserts but we couldn't decide on the style, the price, and a list of other things.
So we had a few choices… we could rush our decision on the dream door, we could simply replace our door with another cheapie version, or we could paint it.
We decided to paint it. For $20 (we had coupons) and some elbow grease, we figure we've stretched the life of our door by a few years. That should be time enough to decide on a replacement and haggle for the best deal on it. We figure we'll save more than the $20 having the luxury of time and the negotiation strength.