I ended going with the much-less-expensive big-box store stocked doors, as it was simply much more practical. Since we are going for a bit of the Mission/Arts & Crafts look, I puchased solid wood pine doors that will later be stained and finished. I bought three doors - one for the bathroom, one for the utlity room, and a set of 10-pane French Doors (we will later attach some sheer curtains to them).
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The French doors to the playroom and the door to the bathroom
Inside the playroom, and the door to the mechanical room. This solid wood door does a great job reducing the noise from the AC / furnace.
Another pic from the playroom
Also needing work was the finishing of the fireplace. First, the wood shelf for the half-wall needed to be installed so that the stonework can be done around it. For some reason I had a very difficult time finding a 1" x 10" x 10' clear pine board, but I eventually did.
Next step is to add roofing paper (for a moisture barrier) to the fireplace chase. I then took a leftover 2x6 and cut it to the size of our new fireplace mantel. This 2x6 will force the mantel out a few inches from the wall, so that not too much of the mantel is buried in the stone finish.
We then drilled holes in the fireplace chase studs and used construction glue to place four anchors.
To the anchors we then glued and attached the fireplace mantel. This is an unfinished (I will eventually stain this) ash hand-hewn beam from a barn in Michigan that was built in 1880. We purchased this from a timber-reclaiming company. The hewn marks are original - someone chopped this beam by hand over 130 years ago. And since this was most likely from a 100-year old 'old-growth' tree (all have since been cut down over the past 200 years) this piece of wood might go back to the times of the American revolution. I'll add some better images as I make further progress on the fireplace.
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