Don't know if you have children, grandchildren or just pets you love, but you could have photos blown up and use it as a picture frame. Just put dividers where you want each photo to sit (I would suggest long ways) and get a large piece of plexiglass to cover the photos and and some small thickness plywood for the back to hold the photos in. Just a thought.
Do you have a pantry? If so, I'd have it trimmed to fit and use it as the pantry door, especially if your kitchen has that old, farmhouse look. Had an antique screen door that I gave away when I moved...boy, am I sorry about that!
You could cut a piece of thin plywood to fit in it and use chalkboard paint on it and turn it into a great message board. Or put the chalkboard in the top half and a corkboard in the bottom half.
Many years ago while overseas, I met a woman who'd hung an old-style screen door like yours in her kitchen where she'd see it all the time.(and it looked like it belonged there) Behind the top half she hung a mounted poster-size picture of some place back home for her. To her it didn't make her homesick but was comforting.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drama is life with the dull bits cut out - Alfred Hitchcock ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
My grandmother painted screendoors for her back doors at the old farm house...I would give anything to have taken those when they restored the house years ago. They were magnificent. The big had a huge wrap around porch and there wer 3 doors that led out to the back porch each door had the illusion that you were walking out into a flower garden when looked at them from across the room. Beautiful work! My sister uses one on her office to keep the kids & cat out but she can still hear them and then one on the nursery...for the same reason. They look beautiful. She purchased them at ane estate sale out of the old barn.
I found an old screen door (red paint!) and used it as shelving in my space at a local antique mall. I dug through my stash of 'potentially useful' stuff and found some interesting mismatched shelf brackets and put a variety of shelves on the door from top to bottom. The bottom shelf I attached with L-brackets in the back and a couple of cut-off chair legs in the front for stability. I put a couple of metal hangers with holes at the top end to attach it to the wall. It really holds a lot of things and really made my space look more interesting.
