Stained...

Stained glass is much a part of Victorian era homes such as ours, and one of our bigger disappointments with our home was that it contained no stained glass.  Even though all of the original windows were replaced in the sometime distant past, we haven't found any indication that there was ever any stained glass in the house.  Not even from looking at this 1930's era photo.

So back in early March, 2016, Robyn got a wild hair to go find a piece for the front door since are scheduled to be on the Minneapolis St Paul Home Tour at the end of April.  We found this piece at Wescott's Station Antiques on West 7th Street in St. Paul.

Putting this in the front door and refinishing the door was not on my original punch list of items to get done for the home tour.  But the door was in rough shape.

The window was just a bit smaller than the opening so we needed to add some shims.

But first, decades of old paint needed to be removed from around the frame.

Once the frame was stripped down...

It was installed in the door...

...and stained.  Because of the different wood types (and some residual old wood putty) the stain didn't match exactly.

The door was finished off with some trim to cover up the shims.