Over Thanksgiving my father was in town and helped me out with a few things around the shop. Even though there were still stacks of wood in the floor and boxes of supplies out of place, the space and tool arrangement worked smoothly from the start. One of our first tasks was to hang the interior door separating the office from the main shop. The office will probably be the last room I move into, but there's no reason to let it fill with dust in the meantime.

In the future I'd like to replace this door with a shop-built interior door that has a large glass panel--so that I can at least see the workshop when I'm chained to my desk. That said: Now that this veneered, $49 hollow-core door is in place, there's a good chance it'll be there for years. There's no handcrafted charm to this thing, but it does swing.

The pre-hung interior door came with a split casing--
you simply remove the trim from one side of the door, then set the remainder of the assembly in place.

We shimmed the top of the door level and adjusted the sides of the casing until they were plumb.

The trim on the front side of the door slides back into a groove on the casing.
Nails into both the casing and the wall secure it in place.