Luxurious with Double Entry Doors

By Graham White

The single or double entry doorsis the main access to go in or out of the home. Its view, its design can shape the identity of the home and shows the owner’s personality. That’s why we need to design the main entry door maximally. It doesn’t need to be expensive, a simple double entry doors but unique and having special characteristic attached on its design can be applied. Chinese Feng Shui, an ancient believe of aesthetic aspect around us, symbolize the main door as a mouth delivering chi elements or positive energy flow to the whole room.

Wood Entry Doors

Wood entry doors are good option for your double entry doors. Wood is a good material, generally used for a door. It gives elegance, long-lasting tidiness with classic style. Combined with glasses, double entry doors from wood can be designed like Old-World European style or traditional style.

Wood entry doors are cheap enough, since it is a sustainable material, but make sure you carefully choose the double entry doors made from wood type; select the solid and soundproof wood instead of the light, low quality door with honeycomb-core. Style is up to you. Don’t forget to maintain your wood door regularly. Use warm water poured with mild soap or detergent, and wipe door using soft sponge or cloth. Don’t use tool that can scratch your door.

Steel Entry Doors

Steel entry doors also can be considered. Double entry doors made of steel is better than wood in its aspect of durability and fireproof. Aesthetically, double entry doors made of steel is equal with the wooden doors since both of them can be manually crafted to meet the desired style, easily finished to reach smooth surface and easily colored and can be repaint as we like. Its energy efficiency is good since the steel entry door is cored with foam, conserving energy and reducing air conditioning bill. Foams also used to make the double entry doors don’t creak. All of them are designed stainless, and some are designed waterproof too. Steel entry door doesn’t need high cost and regularities of maintenance.

If you are improving your home, or planning to build a new one and looking for a modern design for single or double entry doors, there are several designs can be found in the internet. Generally, modern entry doors are made of the combination of wood, glass, and steel, although other material usage is not prohibited. The styles are growing; sliding door, folding door, hinged door, and many others with various designs. Make sure you look for a door which is not only unique in style, but consider its strength, its durability, and accommodate the emergency aspect, just in case your building experience earthquake or tsunami or caught on fire, the main door must be able to let persons inside to evacuate quickly.

Double entry doors must be tough to withstand the weather, so protect your double entry doors from direct contact with rain. Make sure you choose the proper material of your front entry doors, consider its strength first and style follows. It’s better to buy all the component of the door from the same manufacturer to provide a complete entry system and protection. About coloring, be careful with the wooden door since it can lose its color under the bake of the sunlight over 4 hours a day, so make sure you ask the pros to paint or coat the door regularly.

Last word to be said, beautiful door is similar with beautiful mouth. Keep your home’s mouth clean and well maintained. Place ornaments around your double entry doors, like flowerpot, wind chimes, or some living plants, which bring harmony to your home.