Hanging a door - harder than you think

We hated our front door. It was a cheap, metal 6-panel door that was dented. The knob always got stuck and the thing never closed right. When the door we wanted at the hd went on sale we bought it and figured we could just install ourselves. How hard could hanging a pre-hung door be? Well, turns out it's not as easy as taking one out and sliding another in.

First we had to figure out how to get the current one out. 

Notice Bman is helping with his hammer. 

It really wasn't too hard once we figured out that the easy way was to take the door off and then pull the frame inward. 

We went to put the new door in and of course the opening wasn't wide enough. The old owners made some weird rig to make the opening smaller for the awesome cheap door they hung. Once we took that off we were all set. We slid the door in, made sure it was straight and plumb, and nailed it in. Success! Until, we went to shut the door. Apparently being plumb isn't enough to close a door. The floor wasn't perfectly level, something that slipped our minds in the 100 degree heat. So we had to cut out the nails, relevel the door, and 4.5 hours after we started the door was in. 

All we had left was to hang the knob and cover all our mistakes with trim and caulk. We were happy to just have a door with a handle that shut. It took the rest of the next day to do the trim and repair all our mistakes (we made a lot more mistakes I won't even go into). The house is still messy but I will call project new-door done. 

One more project off the list, but I now added three more because I want to get a new light, revamp the mailbox, and make a painted plexiglass address plaque for the front. 

From the inside. Ignore the mess. 

From the outside.