Unless you have a big box phobia check Home Depot or Lowes. We used a Schlage brand. We found in stock 4 sets all keyed the same....there is a number on the box indicating what the key is. They said they would rekey the rest for $5.00 each. We ended up just putting the 4 keyed alike in the regularly used entries. I got a cheap keyless doorhandle for one door, but the batteries went dead pretty quickly and I haven't bothered to replaced them. Doing it over again I would get one that requires no batteries or power.

Doors do not attach to siding and should not be attached through siding. If needed, Siding is cut out at attachment point and a proper wood frame is built attaching to the house. Most common attachment for a storm door or screen door is direct attachment to the preexisting door frame. These stick out in front of the door frame and avoid having to deal with siding since attached to existing surface wood. Alternative and less formal is to get one of the rolled up screen doors that only need to attach to one side and latch to the other. Still need to cutout siding on attachment side and put molding (similar to what there is around window frames around the sides of the place where the door attaches to the house frame.

This is our architect's sketch of our ideas right now of the mudroom area. The very bottom, center is the actual foyer. The door on the right leads to the garage and would be a family entrance, primarily. We also have a door off the back to lead from the backyard for the dog and kiddos to use the bathroom. This is by no means a final plan as our current plan is a footprint of 98' long. We really want a garage that has the car doors at the back of the house and not visible from the road. However, with this large of a footprint, we cannot locate it there. We have plenty of space, but, it would be so costly. We are thinking of placing the garage in the bottom, right corner of this picture with a side load garage and then removing the foyer with a main entrance through the right side of the picture. CPArtist, I am familiar with the book, in fact, I love her mudroom and was aiming to have something similar. The problem with her layout for me is that the bathroom is located where once inside the home, we would walk through wetness from shoes, snow etc to use the bathroom. I am not in love with that idea, as I do it now. Omelet, we would not have a freezer or laundry in this area. Our requirements for this space would be: stairs (scissored), lockers/cubbies with bench, closet, half-bath, dog wash, door from backyard, mail center with storage above and water/food bowls below and coat hooks on wall for guests. We do not hang coats here, we usually have 20+ people at a gathering so, we would prefer hooks. In the architects drawing, he has a walk-through to the pantry, my original request, so I don't have to bring groceries all the way around the foyer area. It would not be a walkway for people, that would be very clear to my children! :) I don't actually think it will stay in that position, mostly because it kills my kitchen idea. Thank you for all of your opinions. This process is taking forever this time!

HI, I used unpainted wood, the kind intended to be painted, not stained. The trim is sold by the linear foot. It's amazing how much trim there is in a room once you start adding it up, especially when you are doing doors and windows. In my case it was several hundred dollars a room just to buy the trim. If you're adding quarter round, that's even more. So if you're doing an entire house, that could be several thousand dollars, just for the trim. Is this a DIY project? I did mine myself but I had good tools including a trim nailer. If you are doing DIY and you don't have a nailer, this will be a long and frustrating project. Trim work is an exacting job to ensure it looks good. Is there wall to wall carpet in any of the rooms? That add another complexity if there is. I would do one area really well, paint the rest of the existing trim and then see how you like it. Try a header with the existing trim. If you don't like it, remove it. I picked up some headers very inexpensively at my local Habitat Reuse Center. I was going to do exactly what you're thinking of, but decided to renovate my kitchen instead. I still have them in a closet. If you're in North Carolina, I can fix you up with headers for free!