What is a good front door design, and why does a good front door matter? Well these are clearly two different questions and initially need to be analyzed separately. What good front door design is not is, those horrid quasi Georgian front doors you see on those poorly designed estates growing like mushrooms across the home counties. Any front door design which is fundamentally based on a pseudo design will add nothing to enhance the environment and our experience of it. Repetitive, unimaginative and derivative use of architectural features has nothing to add to the community other than to add additional short term solutions. Poor design, as we know to our cost, does not last the test of time. In world desperately in need of conserving its’ resources, these short term fixes are really inexcusable. They will very quickly look even more pseudo and ridiculous when these doors get weathered and worn. The poor unfortunate souls living behind these doors will ultimately be the ones that will have to fix this defect.
We are all, to a greater or lesser extent, different people in different situations. All these different facets of our personality are not generally within our conscious control. These aspects of what it is to be uniquely human are highly sensitive to environment. By environment I am referring to both the physical and social setting we find ourselves in. The particular elements of the physical environment and their effects can vary vastly between individuals. Our emotions can be effected by the colours of brick a building is constructed, the proportions of the rooms the colour of our grandparents front door. Even the width and layout of the street architecture will have its’ effect on the viewer.
We are highly suggestible creatures. Many of the subconscious emotional reactions which influence our mood and so directly our reaction to the present situation are honed in infancy. As children we are more receptive than we will ever be again. Every new experience is fresh and new. With our heightened senses and our completely blank canvas we absorb environmental stimuli and frequently make associations between these and our current emotional state. Such associations’ with these connected emotions’ can continue to impact on our moods and general response to our physical environment throughout the remainder of our lives.
Front doors are just one aspect of the whole. Psychologists have found evidence to support the theory that good architectural design has a positive effect on the living experience of those living in or experiencing it. Clearly beautiful dwellings entered via their well designed front doors, can’t of themselves make us happy and carefree. They can only suggest and stimulate those positive emotions we all hold within us. Even the most wonderful front door in the world opening into the most blissful environment we could possibly imagine will have no impact If we are too internally troubled and self absorbed to respond to them.
A well designed Front door will add a good first impression when entering your own home. Never underestimate the importance of good design decisions. Thought and care need to given to every aspect of a well designed home. From the front door to the back door, it all counts to the whole!
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