One front door detail is the type of glazing you choose. You can have either, obscure, or, not surprisingly, non obscure. Obscure glaze comes in 18 different textures. The privacy provided by the obscure glass in your front door falls into five categories of privacy ranging from one, least obscuration, through to five, greatest obscuration. The other option for glazing your new front door is clear glass is decorative glass. Now the choices for your front door style just keep coming. A good online front door site will offer you up to twenty types of decorative designs.
When choosing a design for the glazing in your front door, you again need to consider the colours. Not only do you now have to design your front door for its final location, you also need ensure that the colours in the glazing will blend with the overall front door design. The safe and often really classy option is to add just pattern, or choose the black, such as Murano. Be careful to choose a pattern that will add to, not detract from, your overall front door. A bold, simple pattern of glazing will add to a bold stylish statement. Any pattern incorporating a realistic floral motif will give a pretty, softer effect to your front door. Put into the mix the style of the front door panel distribution and the possible permutations of front door design are vast. Squared off panels are modern and twenty first century. Rounded panels give a more vintage feel. For a more traditional feel to your property consider carefully your choice of door style then start to fill in the panels with pattern and colour.
When you have put together the colours, styles and patterns you then need to consider the front door fixtures and fittings. Front door fixtures and fittings comprise your choice of handles, locks, spy holes and knockers. Generally these come in three metal types, gold, silver and black. The stylish thing about the online front door sites is that you can play with these different colour choices with you own door design to see which looks right for you. The style of the handle and knockers is very important do not underestimate how much these additional features impact on the overall effect of the front door. Again you need to make decisions between traditional and modern.
Last but by no means least, you need to consider security and weather proofing. You need to select a door type which will keep you safe and warm. Secured by Design is a logo you should be looking for whenever you are looking to purchase a front door. It is a non profit making organization set up with the express purpose of ensuring that homes are secure. Front doors bearing this logo will have gone through a higher level of security tests than standard doors, hence guaranteeing the door is the safest possible presently available on the open market.
A front door chosen and specified by you will meet all your style needs, fulfill security and warmth requirements and fit within even the tightest of budgets!