Case study · Webster Groves · 2025
A French-door pair turns a kitchen into a garden room.
The Mendelssohns had a tired old French pair off the kitchen — peeling, drafty, and stuck on its hinges. They wanted the same garden-room feel, done right. We pulled the old unit, prepped the opening, and hung a fiberglass French pair with real divided lites — start to finish in three weeks.
Webster Groves / French Pair, InstalledDoor
Fiberglass French pair
Glass
15-lite real divided
Hardware
Emtek classic brass
Investment
$6,180
Timeline
3 weeks · 1-day install
Before / Original French Pair, FailedThe challenge
A tired pair, replaced like it mattered.
The old French pair had been failing for years — peeling finish, a sagging astragal that never sealed, hinges so worn one door wouldn't latch. We pulled the whole unit, prepped the rough opening, and installed an out-swing fiberglass pair with a dual-bumper astragal and magnetic weatherstripping rated for STL winters.
“The old pair stuck so bad we just stopped using it for two summers. The new one works. That's the main thing. Looks like it belongs, too — we matched the lites to the rest of the windows.”
— Rachel Mendelssohn, Webster Groves
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