As anyone who has ever browsed the selection of doors at Home Depot or Lowe’s already knows, your design choices are pretty limited.

You can get traditional or … traditional.

David Erwin (pictured above), a Fort Worth native and Southwest High School graduate, and his wife, Christiane, found themselves in that same position a few years ago when they were remodeling their Mid-Century Modern residence in North Central Austin. They wanted a modern door that would match the rest of their house.

“I told my contractor exactly what I wanted, but he came back and said it didn’t exist,” David said. “I didn’t believe him. I mean, how hard could it be?”

But after many Google searches and visits to local home improvement stores, they realized that if they were going to get the door they wanted, they would have to build it themselves.
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Okay, so it’s obvious that I’m not a professional journalist, because I obviously didn’t explain what the heck I was talking about with all the “convention” talk.

Regular readers of the blog probably know that Bernie Scheffler and I were elected delegates to the Texas State Democratic Convention in Austin, which is going on right now. (Actually, as I type this, U.S. Representative Al Green (D-Houston) is giving a speech introducing and in praise of U.S. Senate Candidate Rick Noriega.)

SO, now that I can post from my iPhone (and annoy you all wirelesly from wherever I am), you’ll be getting updates occasionally from me and Bernie. Hopefully it’ll be almost like you’re here with us!

(If you ARE here with us, we hope you have a great time and that we get a chance to meet you!)

Bernie and I leave the hotel to find breakfast after a night of drinking with my brother-in-law, and who do we run into? Our Fort Worth City Councilman, Joel Burns, his partner, J. D. Angle, and Fort Worth’s own ink-stained journo, Bud Kennedy, sharing a table but not their migas con hongos, at Las Manitas on Congress.