Why is it that everything is so samey. According to the media, we are all very interested in home improvement and bespoke design. Then what is going so badly wrong? Take a look down any cul de sac and I get the feeling you get in a nightmare of repetition. Go down any street and you will door after door with the same two up two down, rectangular panels, usually in some dirty off white. Dull, dull, miserable suburbia get me out of here!
When you analysis it, the main problem is the sameness. Probably behind these drab front doors are hundreds of individual designer paradises. The dirty white front doors straight from the DIY shop are just a pretense. Short of knocking and asking for access and having a good look around I will never know. In a time when self expression and individuality is prized what’s the deal with the nations’ front doors. It’s like the uncut toenails of the middle aged Englishman, shamefully exposed in the summer. We all avert our eyes and feel rather depressed by the sight but you know it won’t ever change! What is wrong with us can’t we see how shoddy and dispiriting ugliness is? Just as self care and hygiene matters, so does the general environment we live in.
Look at any magazine stool and you will see a plethora of home and interior design magazines. The general population is clearly interested in the subject as all these titles have been running successfully for over a decade now. You can read articles about kitchens, bathrooms, general makeovers, but where is the section about the front of the house? The closest I have come to is some articles on making an entrance via the clever use of plants and planters. As this aspect of our homes is self evidently the feature which makes the first impression on any visitor or passer by, I truly do not understand why it is constantly over looked. Just like the analogy of the knurled ill kempt toenails, a poor front door gives a negative impression. That individual drab exterior duplicated throughout the street results in a dull ugly environment for everyone that lives there.
Surely I’m not alone in my dislike of off white nails and front doors? It just takes a little effort, and the case of the front door, a bit of ingenuity, to transform both. Yes, chaps, there are such things as showers and scissors. Yes home owners there are ecommerce sites out there with the imagination and foresight to give you the ability to express your individuality when choosing a front door.
Yes you can choose your own front door. You can choose your front doors style, your front doors colour and your front doors accessories, i.e. knocker, postbox and door handle. The front door site can allow you to design the materials used to make the door. You can choose the colour of the door accessories to suite your choice of front door colour. The door site allows you to specify which way your door will swing and which way you want your front door to open. The front door site will even give you the ability to choose your own lock. The door site is so efficient that you can even specify the size and thickness of you new front door. Well it exists!