Recognizing Opportunities for Improvement

We love our villa. We love the outdoor showers. We love the views. We love the Tradewinds that blow through 10+ months a year. We even like the bathrooms - but when constantly upgrading things, it is easy to see they need to be prioritized. We’ve got future plans to pull out all of the vanities and sinks and refinish with Mahogany open vanities (no cabinet doors or drawers!) and stylish countertops. Before we get to that though, we realized we could really make things better by replacing the swinging 3 foot louvered doors with barn doors. Not only could they slide along the open bedroom walls and stop being in the way when you enter the bathroom, but modern hardware would allow for air-shock sliders that could be very handy and quiet for guests.

Calling the Pros in from Vermont

We laid out the concept, priced out the hardware, and then called our master-carpenter friend, Chris Salinder to poke holes in the project.

Chris brought his son Spencer down and spent more than a week taking off the old doors and hardware, preparing the door casings and new hardware mounting systems on all 8 bathrooms in the villa.

They also spent time daily in the pool and went to the beach a couple of times with us.

8 New Villa Bathroom Doors

The end results are wonderful: the new doors are quiet, easy to open and close, and make the bathrooms feel much more open with no door swinging in on you.

Many thanks to the Salinder boys for helping make another “Constant Upgrade” project a complete success - one that every group of villa rental guests will enjoy for years to come!